bad memory or PEBKAC?

[Andy Green]

Klaasjan Brand wrote:

> If the original poster unmounted before removing the player that sounds 
> like a bug in the graphical unmount front-end...
> Try running "sync" before unmounting/removing the drive.

I read somewhere recently there is a (fairly long) software timeout on 
the "Safely Remove" option on the desktop icon representing the drive. 
If you transfer a ton of files, the desktop icon can give up and 
disappear before the device is truly unmounted; if it has an LED to 
indicate transfer in progress it would still be flashing away.

I would transfer a ton of new files, and umount it by hand from the 
commandline and see if it makes a difference.  sync shouldn't be 
necessary AIUI because the umount has to do it.

-Andy