Re: Stopping USB drives from XY4

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

  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

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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.