Comment 12 for bug 126825

I have made some tests. There seem to be two problems. One is a Kernel/Hal problem and the other a Gnome-Vfs but the first one isn't so important if the second one gets fixed.
If I unmount a Seagate Freeagent disk under Gnome it works fine but it has no power button.
1. Freeagent Controller shuts down the hard disk after a short period and it is shut down completely if I remove USB connection but if I connect the USB cable again hard disk starts but it doesn't get mounted. It is recognized and can be mounted manually but not automatically. This happens under Gnome and KDE.
2. But KDE/Kubuntu hasn't this problem since it unmounts the volume but doesn't remove the desktop hard disk icon. So I can mount the hard disk again without removing USB cable and since Seagate has an own controller which shut down and restart hard disk it works fine and I guess that was the plan. It is kind of uncomfortable to always remove the cable or restart system to get access to the hard disk.
So I can just click on my hard disk icon on the Desktop in KDE hard disk powers up and gets mounted which is great. The mount status of a disk is shown with a green arrow on the side of the icon.
Btw. this happens for all hard disks but KDE is in Gutsy still able to remove USB sticks so the led runs out. (unmount for harddisks and eject for usb sticks, makes sense)