Hey!

I can't imagine this is not possible, but I guess I just don't see how.

When I have my Palm Pre (or any flash drive for that matter) plugged in and I finish using it, I click the "eject" icon in the Device Notifier. This does *not* actually send the eject signal. I have to manually (in my case) "eject /dev/sdc" for the Pre to recognize that I actually ejected it. If I don't the Pre complains right away that it wasn't properly ejected and data loss may occur. It sure does too! I've lost everything on the flash portion several times if I forgot to issue teh "eject /dev/sdc" before pulling it out. I now make regular backups just in case.

With standard flash drives, if I don't send it the manual eject, Windows always complains that the file system needs to be checked since it wasn't unmounted cleanly.

How do I make the Device Notifier actually send the eject signal to connected flash drives (of any kind) when I click the eject icon?


Thanks!
M.

P.S.
KDE4 is mounting vfat partitions with "flush" and I recently changed the Pre's fstab to include the "flush" mount option, but I've still had data loss.

I think KDE uses HAL or FUSE for this. If it isn't working it is probably a problem with one of those.

I hate to be a pest, but, can you point me in a direction of would would need to change with HAL on my system? I've already made eject +s (like I've seen in a bunch of posts found via Google, but that hasn't helped any. I noticed SuSE has "usb_modeswitch" installed by default, so I tried that her e on my Gentoo machine and still am getting no where.

M.

I'm not sure if eject is what you want - isn't it just to actually eject something, e.g. a CD-ROM? In your case unmount should be enough, no?

Also, the fstab part interests me. I don't know much about how this works, but I thought a fstab entry wasn't needed for hotplugged devices.

Which distro do you use?