Can't disconnect a Lexar Compact Flash Firewire 800

I have a new MacBook Pro with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and a Lexar RW034-7000 Compact Flash card reader (Firewire 800) hook to it. The Lexar starter guide said to drag the card icon to the trash can. The problem is that no icon appears on the desktop to drag. So the blue led light stay on the card reader all the time. How do you safety disconnect the reader from this computer.
Thanks!

If you go to the Finder and selexct Preferences are all items shown on your Desktop in the General tab? By the way, I gather the card works ok with Lightroom so does it have setting where it stops the CF card from appearing?

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