eject/unplug hardware icon... where is it?

[ValuedCustomer]

The icon that appears in the tray (by the clock) when you have your laptop in a port replicator or have inserted a USB flash-drive or whatever does not appear. Is there a way to turn this thing on/off? ? My situation in particular: I have a USB flash-drive that I use regularly but when I insert it into the USB port which is from a 5 port USB PCI card the icon doesn't appear and I have to go into hardware manager and disable/turn off the thing in order to pull it out w/out any risk of screwing something up. - Is this a problem inherent in PCI USB cards or something?

 

[ValuedCustomer]

c'mon.. nobody knows?