I read the comments here and the crosslinked bugs. While many people are being helpful. I think you fail to 'get it'.
Right now, USB drives are catastrophically broken. A user saying "you can't use USB devices on Ubuntu" are correct. -- unmounting of removable drives should show a progress dialog https://launchpad.net/bugs/32643 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs