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. -- ======================================================================= Kilroe hic erat! ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
