On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, prasannatsmkumar wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, prasannatsmkumar wrote: >> > >> >> 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. >> > >> > Right. Bear in mind that nautilus may not have any way of finding out >> > whether the device has removable media, other than requesting for the >> > media to be ejected. But if it doesn't know then failure of the >> > request shouldn't be reported as an error. >> >> Is kernel not exposing this information? > > What I wrote earlier was wrong, sorry. No problem :). > No, the kernel does not export it. But user programs can get the > information directly from the device in exactly the same way that the > kernel does, by issuing an INQUIRY command. I will try to file a bug in nautilus project. As I am not in the nautilus mailing list my mails are not getting delivered. > >> The other OS shows "Eject" >> for the android device and for other pen drive I get a "safely remove" >> option - stated this assuming the options in nautilus and the other OS >> mean the same. > > Alan Stern > Thanks, 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
