[Hardy] No unmount option for memory stick, only eject option which gives an error

[Robert]

In Xubuntu Hardy, thunar does not give an option to unmount a memory stick, only an eject option (even though there's no way to have software eject the drive: it has to be done manually).

When I select eject, it gives an error that it cannot eject the device, although it does dismount it.

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make
Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does
not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to
a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you
are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are
having in the support tracker at [WWW]
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are
bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see [WWW]
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[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

Sorry, I made a mistake, I picked up the wrong bug.

[Robert (robrwo)]

The bug was incorrectly marked as invalid.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. There has been no communication for over two months, I am setting the report to invalid until it can be verified as still causing problems.

Is this an issue for you in Hardy Heron, Version 8.04, which is the latest version of Ubuntu released? I attempted to duplicate this, but I did have an unmount command in "Places" which worked as expected.

Let us know if you are still having this issue. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". That will alert us that this is still a problem. Thanks again!

[Robert (robrwo)]

On 19/07/08 14:48 Charlie Kravetz wrote:

> Is this an issue for you in Hardy Heron, Version 8.04, which is the
> latest version of Ubuntu released? I attempted to duplicate this, but I

Yes.

> did have an unmount command in "Places" which worked as expected.

I've just tried it again with a SanDisk memory stick. "Unmount" is greyed
out, and "Eject" is the only option. However, "Eject" is no longer giving
me an error.

> Let us know if you are still having this issue. To reopen the bug report
> you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change
> the Status back to "New". That will alert us that this is still a
> problem. Thanks again!

Since I am no longer getting an error, I am satisfied that it's fixed.

> ** Changed in: thunar (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
>

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Is this a duplicate of bug 199005, Unmount is not possible on floppy drives? Even though different storage is involved, both give an error when using "Eject Volume" in Thunar.