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Subject: Re: un-plugging the drive

Re: un-plugging the drive

From: Brian Wolven <brian.wolven_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 15:02:37 -0500

Glenn at home wrote:
> I know this has been brought up before, but:
> I am helping someone on the phone with his JukeBox, and he has been in the
> habbit of shutting off his JukeBox and then unplugging it from Windows.
> I suggested to him that it is better to go through "safely remove hardware",
> and he thought that the Archos manual indicates that it is fine to shut it
> off, and just un-plug it.
> What are some thoughts here?

I think that depends on whether or not you have the drive optimized for
safe removal. If write caching is enabled, then you need to use the
safely remove hardware option.

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