<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Pittman</b> <<a href="mailto:daniel@rimspace.net">daniel@rimspace.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jethro Carr <<a href="mailto:jethro.carr@jethrocarr.com">jethro.carr@jethrocarr.com</a>> writes:<br>> On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 17:00 +0800, Bill Christiansen wrote:<br>><br>>> I have a cellphone with a Kingston 512MB microSD card. It works fine
<br>>> as a usb storage device under linux and I always unmount the drive<br>>> before unplugging the usb cable but the phone still complains that it<br>>> was not "stopped" before disconnecting and that the memory card may
<br>>> be damaged. I'm assuming it's just missing a signal from Windows<br>>> telling it, it was stopped and that no real harm can come as it was<br>>> properly unmounted...?<br>><br>> Providing you are unmounting the device correctly, and give it time to
<br>> synchronise the cache before unplugging, there is no reason why this<br>> should cause data loss - as you said, it's possibly a special feature<br>> in the windows driver that's not implemented under Linux.
<br><br>Actually, at least on the command line you can achieve the needed<br>disconnect -- with the small number of devices I tried it with:<br><br> ] eject sda<br><br></blockquote></div>Excellent! now the phone gives me a nice message to say the data cable can be safely removed.
<br>thanks<br>Bill<br>