Why nano mounted on desktop?

When your ipod is docked and plugged into your computer and not doing anything but sitting there is it supposed to show as mounted on the desktop and is the nano supposed to show "do not disconnect" on the screen?

If disk use isn't enabled it shouldn't show up on the desktop... I think thats how you manage addresses personal files etc on the hard drive and iTunes does the music...

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