Re: USB Key light on/off state depending on mount

2007-09-07 Thread Casey Dahlin
Sorry to have left this dormant for so long. Running eject in either of the ways suggested still leaves the light on my particular key turned on. Stefan Richter wrote: Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: I might imagine how windows turns the LED off on unmount. Try "eject /dev/sdX", where sdX is

Re: USB Key light on/off state depending on mount

2007-08-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:26:09 +0200 (CEST), Guennadi Liakhovetski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Josh Boyer wrote: > >> On 8/24/07, Casey Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Most USB keys nowadays have a small LED somewhere inside of them that >> > lights up when they are p

Re: USB Key light on/off state depending on mount

2007-08-25 Thread Stefan Richter
Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > I might imagine how windows turns the LED off on > unmount. Try "eject /dev/sdX", where sdX is your USB storage, after you > unmount it. Be careful, especially if you have SATA (or SCSI) discs in > your system or if you use libata for PATA discs not to eject the wr

Re: USB Key light on/off state depending on mount

2007-08-25 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Josh Boyer wrote: > On 8/24/07, Casey Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Most USB keys nowadays have a small LED somewhere inside of them that > > lights up when they are plugged in. On a windows box, the key is lit up > > whenever it is mounted, and as soon as it is unmoun

Re: USB Key light on/off state depending on mount

2007-08-25 Thread Éric Piel
25/08/07 12:49, James Bruce wrote/a écrit: Robert Hancock wrote: Casey Dahlin wrote: Most USB keys nowadays have a small LED somewhere inside of them that lights up when they are plugged in. On a windows box, the key is lit up whenever it is mounted, and as soon as it is unmounted it turns of

Re: USB Key light on/off state depending on mount

2007-08-25 Thread James Bruce
Robert Hancock wrote: Casey Dahlin wrote: Most USB keys nowadays have a small LED somewhere inside of them that lights up when they are plugged in. On a windows box, the key is lit up whenever it is mounted, and as soon as it is unmounted it turns off, giving a handy physical indicator that th

Re: USB Key light on/off state depending on mount

2007-08-24 Thread Robert Hancock
Casey Dahlin wrote: Most USB keys nowadays have a small LED somewhere inside of them that lights up when they are plugged in. On a windows box, the key is lit up whenever it is mounted, and as soon as it is unmounted it turns off, giving a handy physical indicator that the key is safe to remove

Re: USB Key light on/off state depending on mount

2007-08-24 Thread Josh Boyer
On 8/24/07, Casey Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most USB keys nowadays have a small LED somewhere inside of them that > lights up when they are plugged in. On a windows box, the key is lit up > whenever it is mounted, and as soon as it is unmounted it turns off, > giving a handy physical indi

USB Key light on/off state depending on mount

2007-08-24 Thread Casey Dahlin
Most USB keys nowadays have a small LED somewhere inside of them that lights up when they are plugged in. On a windows box, the key is lit up whenever it is mounted, and as soon as it is unmounted it turns off, giving a handy physical indicator that the key is safe to remove. On linux, the ligh