On Sep 5, 2005, at 8:15 PM, flawed jai wrote:
my wonder being, could the act of plugging the stick in to a mac
already hot and running, disrupt the whole bus and cause it to crash
like this guy describes? or is a USB device like that all right to
plug into a mac which is already on and running? is it hot swappable?
you "should" be able to plug it in while the machine is live.
Apple's USB support still isn't that great and I've never tried it on
less than a G4, myself.
IIRC, the OP is on a 7500/G3 with 9.1; there must be a USB support
card in there, right, the 7500 did not have native USB, I think, and
either the card or the 9.1 host controller support may have issues
with that big a filesystem. Let alone a FAT32 filesystem? if the
device is formatted already.
For example, even newer card readers can break with 1 gig media, I
had a viking card reader that I just posted about a couple weeks ago-
it would not handle a 1gig mery stick (Sony) properly. Viking gave
me an RMA and is sending me a new reader :) good for them.
And FWIW, best to call it a 1gig flash storage drive, keychain
drive, USB flash stick, whatever- "memory stick" specifically means
a proprietary card format used by Sony, which can't plug into a USB
port on its own,you have to use a card reader for it (it's like
compact flash in that regard).
so, not much help here, except to check the tech support pages for
both the PCI USB card the OP has installed, and for 9.1 USB flash
device sizes supported.
Since it took the whole machine down, I'd start with the PCI card
support, myself.
With any working USB storage device, you should "stop" the device
(drag to trash or choose ejecting software) before physicaly removing
it; sometimes data can be hung up in a buffer and if the flash media
is removed while that data remains unwritten, corruption of your file
or filesystem could result.
-B
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