Hi
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 17:32 +0100, Alan Helmore-Simpson wrote:
> But regardless of the led's, If you specify the right parameters when you
> mount the device, you should be able to remove it providing it is not
Correct, you can mount it with the "sync" option and every filesystem
write will
Chadwick Wrote:
>
>> perhaps the ubuntu way of having the light constantly on is better...
>
I have a number of Flash drives that behave both ways, and after a quick
test the do so consistently across both platforms, one has to conclude that
this is not controllable by the OS, its a choice that t
Hi Chadwick,
> > However, on friends' machines running MS Windows on doing the
> > `safely remove ...' option (whatever it is) the light goes off and
> > stays off.
> >
> > I think that's good. It helps confirm it's ready to pull out. Do
> > others experience this difference?
>
> the light is
Ralph Corderoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:That reminds me. I've a 1 GiB flash USB drive. It has a bright LEDthat blinks off on accesses. On `pumount /media/ralphs-usb' it flushessome writes, blinking the light, and unmounts yet the light then stayson.However, on friends' machines running MS Windo
The light stays on using my USB drive under Ubuntu, but goes off under
windows so it's not just you with this behaviour. Even with the light
staying on I think it would be good for a popup message saying the
device is safe to remove as you get in windows. It should be fairly
simple to implement
Hi
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 15:22 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> However, on friends' machines running MS Windows on doing the `safely
> remove ...' option (whatever it is) the light goes off and stays off.
I believe this is because Windows disables the whole device, possibly
even powering it off. L
Hi Chris,
> When you right click on a removable device in Dapper and tell it to
> unmount/eject, you get another progress window that shows the actual
> writing (and if you have a removable device with an LED on it that
> shows accesses, you'll notice that this is when it does most of its
> blink
