On Jun 14, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:20 PM, James Therrault wrote:
That is unlikely, the 'improperly put away' issue only affects
read/write media like flash drives, and is a warning about un-
flushed write caches for that volume filesystem, it wouldn't
affect the modem hardware. If this was the problem, it wouldn't
mount on the G4 either, since the breakage happens on the device,
not in the OS.
When the modem "mounts" on the Gigabit, it does so as a CD which
opens up and contains the installation software. If you remove it
without unmounting it, you will get a warning to the effect that
the item was not closed properly and could suffer damage. Once
the s/w is installed, the modem is initialized.
That it mounts as a CD indicates that it's read-only. Again, the
warnings actually only pertain to devices that can be written to,
not read-only devices. That it mounts onf the G4 means that even if
it WAS a read-write device, it's ok.
Yes I agree. I spent almost an hour at the Cricket, (Corporate),
store today and besides being insulted that I had a Mac, they
couldn't ascertain a thing.
I believe the device is OK but something weird happened software-wise
on the PowerBook.
I can mount a SD card/reader without problems etc.
I may have to resort to opening another bottle of Pinch...
JT
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