USB drive light does not turn off after "safely removing"

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 12:03 +0530, Rohan Kulkarni wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>              I have installed Fedora 8 on my Acer aspire 4720 laptop.I
>> upgraded to the kernel 2.6.24.4-64.fc8.When I say safely remove on a
>> USB drive the icon disappears from the desktop but the light in the
>> USB drive does not switch off.In Windows XP the light is also turned
>> off automatically.What is the problem?How to rectify this?
>>
> I don't know why this is true but what you describe is what happens with
> USB flash drives. Winndows shuts off the drive light but fedora does
> not. It is clearly that the two OSs handle the drive differently. But if
> the drive is unmounted you can safely remove it.
> 
As far as I know, Linux does not shut down the power to the USB 
socket when you "safely remove" a drive. It is something that could 
be added, though it will not be simple. (Does the drive have more 
then one partition, is it a multi-card card reader, etc.)

Mikkel
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