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What year is this, 1990? Linux KNOWS that the USB device has been disconnected - unmount it. This worked fine in 7.10, was broken in 8.04 and still is broken in 8.10.
And saying that yanking a USB drive will make it useless is disingenuous - at least once writing is finished, it is nigh-impossible to damage a USB drive by unexpectedly unplugging it (<0.1% of unplugs, maybe).