[20:22] <dupondje> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/8/246 -> could this small patch be added to Precise kernel. Just hit that 'bug' :)
[22:01] <gordonjcp> hi
[22:01] <gordonjcp> I'm having a problem when I eject USB drives, where I can no longer access the drive as a block device
[22:01] <gordonjcp> dmesg shows the following:
[22:01] <gordonjcp> sdb: detected capacity change from 4004511744 to 0
[22:02] <gordonjcp> what exactly is going on when I eject in Ubuntu, and how can I prevent it doing this without having to reboot into Arch every time I want to write to a USB drive?
[22:03] <RAOF> Why are you ejecting it?
[22:03] <gordonjcp> because I don't want the filesystem mounted
[22:04] <JanC> you can unmount it...  ☺
[22:04] <gordonjcp> yes, but then it stops working, as I just said
[22:04] <JanC> unmount != eject
[22:05] <gordonjcp> same thing
[22:05] <JanC> eject makes it invisible until you remove it & plug it back in
[22:05] <gordonjcp> so does umount
[22:05] <JanC> unmount does not do that
[22:05] <JanC> eject is on a lower level
[22:06] <gordonjcp> I've just tried it; umount does the same thing as eject, or right-click and "Safely Remove..." from the desktop
[22:06] <JanC> I mount/unmount USB disks all the time...
[22:06] <JanC> or partitions on them
[22:06] <gordonjcp> in 11.10?
[22:07] <JanC> yes
[22:07] <gordonjcp> hm, well it's not working here
[22:08] <JanC> eject removes the block device, so naturally you can't (easily) remount it then, but umount shouldn't do that (AFAIK)
[22:09] <gordonjcp> it's definitely removing the block device...
[22:09] <gordonjcp> you're starting to make me wonder if someone has aliased umount to eject, just to annyo me
[22:09] <gordonjcp> *annoy