Re: How to safty unplug a USB Stick

2005-12-20 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 12/20/05 07:44 Thomas Linton said the following: Besides umount, to keep the FS consistant, I belive it would be necessary to actually turn off the USB stick before you remove it. With Windows and Linux there is also a way to safety remove -power off- a USB stick. i've just unmounted and

Re: How to safty unplug a USB Stick

2005-12-20 Thread Thomas Linton
I don't have FS problems. After a umount the USB stick has still the Power LED on. Under Linux an eject turns the Power LED off. I tried /usr/ports/sysutils/eject without success (freeBSD 5.4) I went a little bit through the source of an linux eject and the *BSD eject. The Linux Verion is using

Re: How to safty unplug a USB Stick

2005-12-19 Thread ivan . roth
Thomas Linton wrote: (already Cc to him) My USB stick works fine, but I can't figure out how to safty unplug the USB stick. The LED on my stick is always on; if i try camcontrol stop da0 or camcontrol eject da0 it stays on. Under Linux the eject command turns the LED (Power) off.

Re: How to safty unplug a USB Stick

2005-12-19 Thread Micah
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Linton wrote: (already Cc to him) My USB stick works fine, but I can't figure out how to safty unplug the USB stick. The LED on my stick is always on; if i try camcontrol stop da0 or camcontrol eject da0 it stays on. Under Linux the eject command turns the LED

Re: How to safty unplug a USB Stick

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Linton
Besides umount, to keep the FS consistant, I belive it would be necessary to actually turn off the USB stick before you remove it. With Windows and Linux there is also a way to safety remove -power off- a USB stick. On 12/19/05, Ivan Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Linton wrote: My USB