On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 09:43 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > 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. I don't think that you could do that. Even if you could, how would it then tell if something was plugged back in again? It couldn't. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.