Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: USB Key light on/off state depending on mount | Date | Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:10:32 +0200 | From | Xavier Bestel <> |
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:26:09 +0200 (CEST), Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Josh Boyer wrote: > >> On 8/24/07, Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin@ncsu.edu> wrote: >> > Most USB keys nowadays have a small LED somewhere inside of them that >> > lights up when they are plugged in. On a windows box, the key is lit > up >> > whenever it is mounted, and as soon as it is unmounted it turns off, >> > giving a handy physical indicator that the key is safe to remove. On >> > linux, the light is simply on whenever the key is plugged in.
Windows powers off the USB device on unmount, whereas linus does not. I think the problem may lie in HAL.
Xav
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