Re: No "Eject" option for USB Pen Drive
- From: "RJK" <notatospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:22:30 +0100
Hi, ...yes, ...I do go on at length ! :-)
Perhaps you meant that you "...learnt to not 'Safely Remove hardware' drives
O:\ and R:\ ? ...and not as you actually said 'eject' them ? ...or when
you eject them, do the drive letters actually disappear for the session ?
....perhaps I've got the wrong end of the stick, or perhaps your hardware
reacts differently to mine when "ejecting" a drive letter ?
....e.g. my system tray "Safely Remove hardware" pop-out offers me, atm,
three items:-
Safely remove Mass Storage Device - Drive(G:) {a USB pen drive}
Safely remove Mass Storage Device - Drive(E:) {a USB external hd.}
Safely remove Mass Storage Device - Drive(I:,J:,K:,L:) {USB camera card
reader bay / 4x flash card slots)
....as per my current hardware arrangement, my 'internal' IDE and SATA hd
drives are not listed for safe removal, ...nor would I want or need to them
to be. Perhaps yours are showing due to some hot-swap hardware/software
features specific to your machine ?
On my machine, in Windows Explorer, default layout / left hand pane -
directory listing, card slot drives are the ones that will right-click |
"eject" | memory card - directory file listing is dismissed, (and then
Windows Explorer flies off to display something like Control Panel ...I
think !), ...the card slot / drive letters remains listed, and the next
memory card inserted, (same Windows session), in that drive is recognised
okay. ...as opposed to system tray "Safely remove hardware," where card
slot drive letters would disappear everywhere, and I would have to reboot to
get them back.
....all this is to do with differing hardware between you and I, I think,
but, I may later look into meddling with "customize the list of "removable"
items" :-), ....though I supect that this would incur maintenance of some
sort, and could interfere with my hardware, hd's etc. which are atm, how I
want them - with the drive letters I want - and they're not "moving around"
all over the place ! :-)
bfn, regards, Richard
"Jeff Johnson" <i.get@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"RJK" <notatospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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FWIW my 3 1/2" card reader bay didn't have, or need, any drivers
installed for it, just one cable from camera card slots that connected to
a mobo (twin) USB pin header, ...and which causes the 'next available'
four 4 drive letters to appear on my drives "tree" ...in my case I:\ J:\
K:\ L:\ :-)
...and a another cable that connects to just "one side" of a mobo USB pin
header for the single USB port on the front of the thing - I made the
effort to connect it up to gain the convenience of having a USB port at
the front of my system box, rather than have a USB hub dangling around.
...I like to have as much as possible connected up, even if I don't use
it much i.e. it's irritating to suddenly find that one eventually wants
something but, it's not instantly there, because one was too lazy to
connect it up properly in the first place, ...if you see what I mean !!
...I digress...
It's not a really a problem, ...though it's interesting that software
lurking in my machine that places handles on drive letters, doesn't seem
to grab card slots, ...though having said that, I can't remember if I've
ever had trouble "ejecting" a memory card because something else had hold
of a card drive letter, ...I don't think I have. ...in any event I'll
just keep an eye-out with ProcessExplorer - PowerDVD may pay the price !
"Ejecting" a camera memory card doesn't physically eject it anyway, (just
trying to be clear), it just sort of dismisses the memory card file
listing, and then I feel safer and happier when I yank the card out !!!
...and I think the blue LED on my Siemens USB pen-drive goes out when I
"Safely remove hardware" it, can't double check that now, ...left it in a
friends house miles away, ...just did it with a emaxUSB pen drive, LED
goes out, obvously normal behaviour for a USB pen drive that's been
"Safely hardware removed".
The amber LED on the front of my card reader, indicating that a camera
card is plugged in, doesn't go out when the card it right-click
"ejected," though it's file listing is dismissed - and the next card
plugged in is instantly read. If I "Safely remove hardware" any camera
card slot drive letters, I have to reboot to get them back, ...perhaps
all to do with the ic in the card reader bay ?
I think the theory is that one can quite safely just yank out camera
cards without "ejecting" them ...ding dong etc ? ...but, a while ago I
pulled a "Compact Flash Card CF ? ...(big one with two long rows of
"pin-holes"), out of a card reader bay slot on another computer that
wouldn't right-click "eject" and it corrupted, and wouldn't reformat -
i.e. it died. Perhaps coincidence !
....so this why I've been rambling on about it all.
Actually, after reading all that I realize that I do have a similar (and
rather silly) situation. When I use the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the
tray I not only see any USB drives that are plugged in but also my own
card reader (a "Dazzle") AND most of my hard drives (!!!). My card reader
apparently identifies itself as two drives (O: and R:) and I have learned
that I do NOT want to use the Eject feature on it simply to pull out an SD
card because if I do the reader stops functioning completely and I have to
pull out and re-insert the USB plug to get it to work again. So as you
said, I believe you can safely yank out an SD card or the like without
telling the system anything. (Of course, I always make sure nothing is
writing to the card at the time....) I've never had a Compact Flash card
so I don't know if they need to be ejected. I've never used "drive R:" on
my card reader, just O:.
I know that others have experienced similar silliness with Safely Remove
Hardware because there's at least one person out there writing his own
version of it which allows you to customize the list of "removable" items
that it will display. I don't remember the URL but a search on Google for
"safely remove hardware replacement" should probably give you good
results.
.
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