On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 23:38 +0200, Adalbert Prokop wrote: > John Austin wrote on Friday 29 June 2007: > > > 1. Why are the two "identical" devices treated differently? > > I make a reasonable guess: that KDEs "fault". Those devices are not > identical, they have different properties. You can look at them using > hal-device-manager. KDE looks at these properties and invokes different > hal methods over DBUS. In case of the memory stick it would be "Eject" > and in case of the hard drive it would be "Unmount". It think so because > I also have an USB memory stick and an USB hard driver and their hal > method list is identical, but different methods are invoked on them. I have managed to get hal-device-manager working and it does indeed show differences between the USB Stick and USB Disk, in particular Stick info.addons dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'hald-addon-storage')]..... storage.media_check_enabled 1 storage.removable 1 Disk info.addons Does not exist storage.media_check_enabled 0 storage.removable 0 > > > 2. Is there an easy method of changing all USB sticks > > to act the same as the USB Disk? > > I have some ideas but I had no time to investigate them further. I hope I > will have in the near future. > > 1. Replace hal-storage-eject with hal-storage-unmount (in /usr/libexec) > UGLY. And not update-safe. > > 2. Write a fdi file which either removes the Eject method from hal > methods' list or let "Eject" point to "hal-storage-unmount" > That would be my preferred method. > > 3. Somehow tell KDE to provide both options in the device's dialog: > unmount and eject. That would be just perfect. > > > Its just annoying ! > > I most definitely agree with you. :-) > > > Surely you don't have to dig into hal/udev to fix this > > About this I'm not so sure... > > -- > bye, > Adalbert > It is also noticeable that when using the USB Stick and Safely remove is invoked then /dev/sdx1 etc are removed leaving just /dev/sdx then this device does not work. ie fdisk /dev/sdx fails to find the device My knowledge runs out at this stage !! Many thanks for the reply John
