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Re: Stopping USB drives from XY4



Harry Binswanger wrote:
It's the removal of power. No one has claimed any problem about inserting a USB device, only removing it.

Actually, I have sometimes had a system reboot when my flash drive was
inserted. Both older and somewhat underpowered systems. Furthermore, it
happened when I inserted the drive directly into the USB (1.1, by the
bye) port, rather than connecting it to an extension cable. I suspected
static, esp as I was groping around trying to get the thing in a port
that was not in plain sight.
If I try to put too many things on my (non-indepdently-powered) hub, I get
the message of there having been a surge. Amazingly, XP seems designed to
deal with these occurrences (which I don't think are actually a surge, but
some other kind of transient). I should buy a powered hub.



Harry Binswanger
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