I can understand why I would see activity on a USB device when it's first
plugged in. But why do I see continued activity (i.e. the light blinks on a
usb disk or memory stick)? When I umount one of these, they keep being beat
up on and it makes me nervous... At what point is it sync'd
On 06/15/12 03:23, Thomas Mueller wrote:
I can understand why I would see activity on a USB device when it's first
plugged in. But why do I see continued activity (i.e. the light blinks on a
usb disk or memory stick)? When I umount one of these, they keep being beat
up on and it makes me
Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:26:16 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
I can understand why I would see activity on a USB device
when it's first plugged in. But why do I see continued
activity (i.e. the light blinks on a usb disk or memory stick)?
When I umount one of these, they keep
On Thursday 14 June 2012 07:05:11 Polytropon wrote:
I don't think that's a problem. I've got a USB stick here
that has a blinkenlight as soon as it's powered on (plugged
in), even if there is no reading / writing / mounting activity.
After you've successfully performed umount, the USB stick
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Mike Clarke wrote:
On Thursday 14 June 2012 07:05:11 Polytropon wrote:
I don't think that's a problem. I've got a USB stick here
that has a blinkenlight as soon as it's powered on (plugged
in), even if there is no reading / writing / mounting activity.
After you've
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:49:00 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote:
Is it possible that there is volitile memory buffering in the stick that
may not have been written to flash when umount thinks it is complete, and
the flashing light is an indication that power is still required to
complete
On Thursday 14 June 2012 15:45:46 Polytropon wrote:
However, as you said
it might be possible that _inside_ the USB stick there is
still an action that needs to be performed and therefore
requires power.
That's a possibility.
But I doubt this takes several seconds to
complete...
I've
