Re: Stopping USB drives from XY4

["David B. Kronenfeld" kfeld@xxxxxxxx]

(As I understand it) YES that is sufficient. The problem is that
often, as Henry B. just said, "the damn thing in the tray usually
says, "I can't stop this device now." And continues to do that
forever. Brilliant!"


After some passage of time (a minute or two) I finally give up and
just yank the thing--with, so far, no apparent problem.


I have been using the activity light on the device (mostly one or
another jump drive, sometimes my external hard drive) as my
guide. When the light is off and has been off for some seconds I
have been assuming that it was through doing its thing. Correct ?

                            David

At 03:17 AM 12/9/2005, you wrote:

>   Just so as I understand this correctly, and to make sure that we
>   are talking about the same thing; I'm running XP Pro, and I have a
>   small icon in the tray called "Safely Remove Hardware." Before
>   I remove my flash drive, I activate this icon and I then get a
>   message to the effect that it is now safe to remove the flash
>   drive from the USB port. For those amongst us who are using XP,
>   isn't that sufficient to prevent damage to the flash drive?
>
>   In advance, thanks
>
>   M.W. Poirier
>
> -----
> On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Robert Holmgren wrote:
>
> > > I'd like to know if there's really any data-loss danger from pulling out
> > > flash drives (after the writing is done).
> >
> > Definitely. Do you use lazy writes? XP does, by default. They
> say they're
> > done, but they aren't. How do you actually know when writing is
> done? How do
>
> > you know what the consequences are of putting ungrounded power to your USB
> > device? You can't assume that all the power connectors will let go
> > simultaneously.


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