Re: Removable media and Ubuntu.

Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> So now I'm SOL. I could flip the power on the drive, but that's not
> an option for internal drives, nor the correct way to do it. What am I
> missing, Conrad?
>

See, you need to have device icons turn on with the desktop. I simply
turned it on so that all removable media that's mounted has an icon I
can click to eject. This still doesn't explain why there wasn't an
option in Konq (added to my patch/bug todo list), or why my Konq doesn't
support the devices protocol.

Putting "device" or "mount" in the search bar of the "tries to by Mac OS
X control panel" interface doesn't result in the "Desktop" icon being
highlighted (it's grayed out!). Even if you do click that icon, device
icons are hidden as a tab "Device Icons" under "Behaviour" which won't
be obvious to anyone (I had actually been in there and scanned the
options a few times looking for it to be top-level!). KDE's usability
is better than Gnome, but still laughable. I don't know why screensaver
is a top-level pref in desktop (shouldn't that be under "Display"?! I
suppose if they had such an icon...).

Another option I found to share:
sudo sysctl dev.cdrom.lock=0
And to have this persist, you can add it to the /etc/sysctl.conf file:
sudo sh -c 'echo "dev.cdrom.lock=0" >> /etc/sysctl.conf'

  -- this will make the eject button work like on Windows (ejecting a
disk instead of unmounting it). This is totally different than how I'm
used to it on Linux/Mac where we always explicitly unmount things, so I
didn't apply it.
Received on Tue May 16 01:57:47 2006