On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 04:46:25PM -0500, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: > Sarah, > > If I simply "eject" (unmount) the drive instead of "safely removing it", > then the light on the Kingston flash drive turns off and stays off, and > when I pull the drive out and re-insert it, the drive is mounted as it > should be. > > I pulled out a USB 3.0 drive that has three filesystems on it. I plug > it in to the top USB 3.0 slot and all three partitions mount (great!) > > I then click on one of the icons, chose "safely remove the drive" and > all three file systems disappear (as they should). I remove the USB > device and plug it back in the same socket and nothing happens until I > do an "lsusb", or until I plug it in the other USB 3.0 socket. Then all > three filesystems are mounted again. I'm not sure, but I think "safely removing" a USB device actually powers off the USB port. ISTR that Alan worked on a patch for that. Alan, is this expected behavior? Sarah Sharp -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
