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.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 267398 ***
Please reopen if necessary after testing with KDE 4.6.2, thx