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.
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.