Lexar CF reader (rw025-7000) does not turn off LED when card unmounted

[Michael Doube]

I have a new Lexar rw025-7000 Professional CompactFlash reader (USB 2.0). Reading and writing is fine, and nice and fast (which is why I bought this model).

Under Ubuntu Gutsy everything works fine until I unmount the CF card - EOS_DIGITAL disappears from my desktop as it should but the blue LED in the eject button on the reader stays on. I wouldn't worry much about this except that on the bottom of the reader is written:

"Never remove card when LED is ON or blinking"

I'm really not keen to fry my CF cards, and I'm also unsure whether the CF is fully unmounted and turned off while the blue LED stays on.

Any help appreciated

Mike

[Hubert Figuiere (hub)]

This has nothing to do with gphoto2

[Michael Doube (michael-doube)]

Resubmitting to the kernel team...

Plugging in reader:
dmesg:
[ 9177.628000] usb 3-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[ 9177.772000] usb 3-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 9177.772000] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 9177.772000] usb-storage: device found at 4
[ 9177.772000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning

Inserting CF card:
dmesg:
[ 9182.772000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 9182.776000 ] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Lexar Pro CF USBReader L006 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 9182.776000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 9182.776000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 9223.060000 ] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 4001760 512-byte hardware sectors (2049 MB)
[ 9223.060000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 9223.060000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 9223.060000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 9223.064000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 4001760 512-byte hardware sectors (2049 MB)
[ 9223.064000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 9223.064000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 9223.064000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 9223.064000] sda: sda1

mtab:
/dev/sda1 /media/EOS_DIGITAL_ vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umask=077 0 0

Unmounting CF card:
dmesg:
-no entry
mtab:
-no entry

Unplugging CF reader:
dmesg:
[ 9575.892000] usb 3-3: USB disconnect, address 4

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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