Bug 268223

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.1) 
OS:                Linux

I've got a Cowon iAudio E2, a USB ogg/flac/mp3-player, and whenever I remove it with the regular panel/taskbar device notifier, it says that the device "can now be safely removed". However, if I then unplug it, several files often get corrupted, e.g. a certain song will skip a bit at certain places, and if I plug it in again and do a diff, I get "binary files … differ". This is easily reproducible. So I figure the device notifier doesn't really safely remove the device, only umounts it. I found this script

http://elliotli.blogspot.com/2009/01/safely-remove-usb-hard-drive-in-linux.html

which does something with sdparm to safely stop the device, and when I use that after umounting with the notifier, the files seem to survive.

Feature request: do whatever that script does after umounting.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Plug in a Cowon iAudio E2
Copy over about 50 mp3's.
Do a diff -r to make sure files were correctly copied over. 
Click the notifier to "safely remove", 
Remove, 
Plug back in,
Do a diff -r.

Actual Results:  
Certain files will be corrupted and differ.

Expected Results:  
Files should not differ.

Unfortunately I haven't got any other such devices to test with.