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> >
> Generally it just complains that you pulled out the device prematurely, 
> I've never seen one give a STOP error from that but I guess a bad driver 
> or USB controller could cause anything.
> 


Generally, yes.  But it is not over-statement to say 'sometimes'.  I
have seen this quite a bit. =(.  So I try not to pull devices w/o using
'Safely Remove...'

> When you insert a device like a USB stick Windows puts a little icon 
> next to the clock in the system tray that you're supposed to use to stop 
> the device before pulling it, effectively it unmounts and stops (or 
> atleast releases the device from) the driver so the device can be 
> 'safely' removed.

I am aware of this, =).  I was just commenting that yanking the device
in Windows - is not that much different from Linux.

Now, I would like to see the HAL type crap for Linux. It would be nice
to have uniform user device control from a gui programmable means.

js


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