Klaasjan Brand wrote:
If the original poster unmounted before removing the player that sounds
like a bug in the graphical unmount front-end...
Try running "sync" before unmounting/removing the drive.
I read somewhere recently there is a (fairly long) software timeout on
the "Safely Remove" option on the desktop icon representing the drive.
If you transfer a ton of files, the desktop icon can give up and
disappear before the device is truly unmounted; if it has an LED to
indicate transfer in progress it would still be flashing away.
I would transfer a ton of new files, and umount it by hand from the
commandline and see if it makes a difference. sync shouldn't be
necessary AIUI because the umount has to do it.
-Andy
