Just because the OS & PC think the card is done moving data around, doesn't mean it is. Flash cards are weird beasts. On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:17:23 +0800, Ow Mun Heng <ow.mun.heng@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Guys, > > this is causing data curruption. I'm using Gnome + FC2 and wondering > why the act of umounting the drive does not call the "sync" before it's > marked as unmounted? > > Right now, what I see happening is that, when you click on the Unmount > VOlume icon, the icon will straight away gets changed to the unmounted > status, but data is only starting to get sync'ed. And I've unknowingly > just pulled out the disk before it fully sync's. > > This is not good. > I think I might have fried a 64MB key not too long ago due to this. > > -- > Ow Mun Heng > Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.8.1.Aug.29 > Neuromancer 01:22:35 up 1 day, 3:41, 2 users, load average: 0.40, 0.54, > 0.63 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- -- David L. Martin Roving: dlmarti@xxxxxxxxx Home: kc2lcf@xxxxxxxx Work: dlmarti@xxxxxxxxxxxx
