Bug 204902

Summary:	"safely remove" usb flash drive to turn device off
Product:	[Unmaintained] solid	Reporter:	Stas <ss.paranoid>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Kevin Ottens <ervin>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	finex
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description Stas 2009-08-23 19:44:48 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

I have SanDisk MicroMate card reader (got it with 8GB SDHC SanDisk card). Using KDE 3.5 "safely remove" card reader in switched off (green light turns off), but using KDE 4.3.0 - it's just unmounted. Add please switching device off. It will be much easier to explain to less experienced users that they can take their drive when green light turned off.

Comment 1 Kevin Ottens 2009-08-28 15:43:53 UTC

That's actually an issue on HAL side IMO.

The card reader is turned off when we issue an "eject" request to it. In 3.5 we were blindly sending this request to any kind of devices which was causing quite a few problem for other users. Now we're using a hint provided by HAL to determine if the device needs such an eject or not. Apparently in the case of your device it is not provided, which can be changed with some fdi file for instance, you probably want to report your issue to the HAL developers then.

IMO that's not something which should be workarounded at our level.