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Subject: Re: USB and safely remove hardware

Re: USB and safely remove hardware

From: Frank Gevaerts <frank_at_gevaerts.be>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 20:35:53 +0100

On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 12:21:15PM -0700, rburight.thebashar_at_xoxy.net wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Frank Gevaerts - frank_at_gevaerts.be wrote:
> > Currently devices with the rockbox usb stack leave USB mode when the host OS
> > sends an eject command to all exposed drives (usually one, but the sansas
> > have two). It does not leave USB mode when the host OS sends "allow medium
> > removal".
> >
> > In practice this means that "safely remove hardware" in windows does not make
> > the device leave USB mode, while selecting Eject from the context menu does.
>
> Frank,
>
> Since I started using rockbox usb on my sansa c250 (2gb + 4gb sdhc)
> I've been getting messages in windows that it did not unmount cleanly
> and needs to be scanned for errors when I reconnect. I always use the
> safely remove hardware function, but it does not seem to make any
> difference. Could this be related to the behavior you are describing?

No. I don't really see what could cause that, but what I was talking
about is totally unrelated. My email was about using those SCSI commands
to be able to leave USB mode earlier, but however we handle them , they
are only sent after windows (or any OS) is totally done with the device.

Frank

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Received on 2009-03-08

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