[Bug 58706] Re: LED indicator on USB flash disk is not switch off after disk eject

[Michael Doube]

I've just tested this on Hardy 8.04.1 and can confirm that eject no longer switches off the LED, however it does remove (unmount) the flash drive from the filesystem.  The main problem here is that people expect the LED to be informing them of the status of their drive, which it does not, so they cannot confidently remove their drive.  Windows has trained them to be frightened of removing devices before they are told they can "safely remove hardware" - at which point the LED is
usually off.  So leaving the LED on ~= device is not ready to be removed (even if you and I, experienced Linux people, know that once it is unmounted everything is OK.)

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LED indicator on USB flash disk is not switch off after disk eject
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/58706
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