Comment 14 for bug 99538

I can confirm the above problem on the release version of Ubuntu 7.04 with a 250 GB external Western Digital hard drive. I don't get the problem with my 128 MB flash drive or my card reader, but when I try to unmount the external HDD (even if nothing is using it), I get the message "Cannot eject volume" and the volume immediately re-mounts again.

sudo eject "My Book" (as that is the name that comes up for the device) still works.

The workaround provided by Martin Pitt allows the volume to umount again, but I do not hear the audible "click" of the drive (which I assume is the HDD heads parking) that I did with Edgy and previous versions. So, while the workaround lets me unmount the drive again, it does not seem to unmount as "cleanly" as it did in Edgy and earlier. The device does unmount though, because it no longer appears in the list provided by the mount command.

As with Martin Pitt's suggestion (moving the file somewhere else), restoring the Edgy version of the /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-storage-policy.fdi file (which contained many more lines than the Feisty version does) also has the same effect, but, as I said, the unmounting behaviour does not seem as clean as it did in Edgy.

Just to reiterate that this problem has only appeared for me in Feisty; in both Dapper and Edgy I don't have the issue.