How to safty unplug a USB Stick

Micah micahjon at ywave.com
Mon Dec 19 07:06:11 PST 2005


ivan.roth at free.fr wrote:
> Thomas Linton wrote: (already Cc to him)
> 
>>My USB stick works fine, but I can't figure out how to safty unplug the USB
>>stick. The LED on my stick is always on; if i try "camcontrol stop da0" or
>>"camcontrol eject da0"  it stays on.
>>
>>Under Linux the "eject" command turns the LED (Power) off.
> 
> 
> I am not really sure about this but isn't umount your key enough ?
> 
> If not, I am interested in the solution cause I only mount/unmount my key. No
> trouble at this point.
> 
> Regards, Ivan.

On 5.2/5.3/5.4 I've used umount then camcontrol eject dax.  The light 
always turns off for me.

HTH,
Micah


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