Re: Stopping USB drives from XY4

["Patricia M. Godfrey" PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx]

We seem to have two problems here:
1) Is it possible to remove/eject/stop the device from the CMD line, so
that those who run Xy full screen don't have to minimize (with that
heart-stopping few seconds of blank screen) to do it?
2) Why does the "Safely remove hardware" module malfunction in some
cases and not in others?
1. I cannot experiment on right now, but my XP book (Windows XP in a
Nutshell, by Karp, O'Reilly, & Mott; O'Reilly) says that the Removable
Storage Management Snap in is invoked with
mmc ntmsmgr.msc
or
mmc compmgmt.msc
All such files are in c:\windows\system32
As for 2, what immediately occurs to me is the different speeds between
USB 1.1 and USB 2. It surely takes longer for a write to be completed on
1.1 than on 2. And if Windows is confused (as it can be, esp if the
drive is one spec and the PC the other) about which is involved, it
might "think" the write was still in progress when it was finished. (An
old PIII, 450 MHZ, with a Zip disk does this all the time: keeps saying
the drive is still being written to hours after it was last accessed.)

Patricia M. Godfrey