How come you can disconnect the iPhone without ejecting, but not the iPod?

because they are awesome

My iPod nano needs to be unmounted and it is flash based. My guess would be the the iPhone is not mounted like a normal volume. That is why you can’t use it as portable hard drive like you can with normal iPods. I don’t know why the iPhone can’t be used as a hard drive. My guess would be that they wanted to make it harder to get at the operating system files on it.

@johnpowell

Technically, there’s nothing stopping you from using it as a hard drive. I have SSH installed on my phone. All I have to do is make a folder and transfer stuff over SFTP. Interesting though.

@Spargett

What happens if you run:
ls -a /Volumes
from the Terminal with you iPhone plugged in? I assume that it is Jailbroken.

@johnpowell

I don’t know, I’m not much a terminal guy : ) Maybe this is a good time for someone who knows alot more than I do to chime in.

I might be wrong but I think if you uncheck “enable disk use” in Itunes the Ipod will disconnect automatically.