On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > STOP UNIT means spin down the disk or eject the disc. Since your phone > doesn't have a disk drive or an optical disc, no wonder this step > failed. Yes of course it does not have a optical disc or disk drive. But I thought if there is no such thing nautilus should not try to spin down. Linux kernel has nothing to do with this problem though. > > No, neither option cuts power. The main difference is that "safely > remove" disables the USB connection, so that if the device has an "okay > to unplug now" light, the light will turn on. I have seen lights going off in my pen drive, so naturally as an user I assumed that nautilus request the kernel to cut down the power and kernel did that. After choosing "Safely Remove" option my device node (/dev/sdb or whatever) still exists? > > You probably should get in touch with the people who maintain the > Nautilus program if you want to know why it does something. Yeah sure. Nautilus people are in this list. I will communicate with them. Thanks and Regards, PrasannaKumar -- 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
