USB drive light does not turn off after "safely removing"

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Apr 11 11:42:46 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 12:03 +0530, Rohan Kulkarni wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>              I have installed Fedora 8 on my Acer aspire 4720 laptop.I
> upgraded to the kernel 2.6.24.4-64.fc8.When I say safely remove on a
> USB drive the icon disappears from the desktop but the light in the
> USB drive does not switch off.In Windows XP the light is also turned
> off automatically.What is the problem?How to rectify this?
> 
I don't know why this is true but what you describe is what happens with
USB flash drives. Winndows shuts off the drive light but fedora does
not. It is clearly that the two OSs handle the drive differently. But if
the drive is unmounted you can safely remove it.
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