re: Safe remove USB Memory stick
Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DNA
(549 messages posted)
"Whether the menu has the Eject entry or not,
I have never seen it fail to throw an error
when a USB device was disconnected under W98. Have all the W98 systems/drivers I've
seen in use been atypical?"
All of my 98 systems are now using the Maximus Decim Generic driver, but my Media
Gear Keychain SD and SM card readers had no Eject taskbar icon with their Win98 drivers,
and I could simply pull them out when they were not active reading/writing, without
any problem. If an Explorer window was open, their Removable Disk icon would vanish
right away.
The other USB peripherals I had, had the Eject taskbar icons with their Win98 drivers.
Sometimes I'd see two icons at once (you could hover to see which icon ejected which
device!)
Technically, I should have right-clicked "Eject" on the Removable Disk icons for
the MediaGear card readers, but it seemed as if their driver was in fact designed
for safe 'quick removal' (similar to disabling write-behind caching for removable
drives within Windows XP, so that they can be 'safely removed' without clicking on
the USB icon - a.k.a. the "Optimize for quick removal" setting).
My aunt and uncle use this setting on their XP computer, and I still 'freak' for
a split second when they pull a flash drive out without clicking on the USB icon!
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