Who's got the skinny on USB mem sticks? "ejecting"

From: kalev- (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 04/06/04 

Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 21:41:59 +0200

Yeah, I stick in a USB mem stick (Sandisk 128MB USB 2.0 stick), you hear a
system bell:
In a little while Suse's "Plugger"..drops a sda1 device on the desktop.
On an initial insert -- access seems to work fine.

But after that.. when you want to remove umount and what not -- it does not
really play nice. The kernel and its liason process; 'konqueror --silent'
does not want to let it go. A root user has to terminate the process every
time. This seems uncool to me.

Interestingly enough my USB HD disk doesn't have this problem. Also I had
an Apple iMac at work, that I tested the stick on too - no problem there.

I checked the Suse kb on USB- but I can't really say that I got any wiser.

Anyone want to share their thoughts?
I hope Suse 9.1 and kernel 2.6 to be better with this...

jk 

-- 
Suse Linux 9.0 | 2.4.21-199-smp4G | KDE 3.1.4

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