I notice that the windows OS has a "safely remove hardware" function that goes in combination with USB flash drives, does this actually contradict the fact that the actual specifications on USB 2.0 are HOT SWAPABLE? Or is this simply just a dummy message saying that you have something streaming from the drive.
2006-10-09 16:37:05 · 8 answers · asked by D 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Just to make sure anything in the cache is written to the drive and the drive is not being written to before removing it.
Could cause data corruption.
2006-10-09 16:40:46 · answer #1 · answered by TLWOLFf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More of a dummy message. Most of the data on your computer is in the form of a "file". If I remember my programming lessons correctly, that file has a "flag" to tell the system whether it's open or closed. If you pull the plug on a file that is controlling your USB port, there is an "error" on the hard drive, the file is still flagged open when its open value should have been set to a 0 byte. Since any contemporary version of Windows simply fixes that on a re-boot, it's more of a dummy message.
Here's another one that gets me: On my old Windows O/S, the buggy software would crash the system through no fault of mine and I got this big "lecture" upon re-boot, something like, "You did not shut down your computer correctly, bad human!" Yeah, right.
2006-10-09 23:43:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
An oxymoron is a sentence that contains two conflicting, or diametrically opposite statements.
Like, for example, "I want the minimum most quotation for this job!" which I once heard a guy say to mean he wanted the lowest quote! Please note that "minimum" and "most" are conflicting and diametrically opposite statements juxtapositioned together in an attempt to make sense.
Or, for another example, "She's a cool, hot babe!" I think the oxymoron is evident here, isn't it?
Now, please do let me know where's the "oxymoron" in "Safely remove hardware"?
Primarily, it's a phrase, not a complete sentence. And only complete sentences can be oxymorons.
Kindly do make an effort to say the right thing and use "le mot juste" when you wish to appear superciliously scholarly.
2006-10-10 00:39:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That is to protect the memory on the flash drive. Just like in your computer, you wouldn't remove the RAM sticks with the power on, the same is true for flash memory. "Safely remove" shuts the power supply off to the USB port temporaraly until you remove that device.
http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/Flashdrive/
2006-10-10 03:40:51 · answer #4 · answered by mittalman53 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oxymoron? No...
These are oxymorons:
deafening silence; silent scream; living dead and Microsoft Works.
Hope this helps
2006-10-10 02:17:49 · answer #5 · answered by buddyperx 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Are you a moron? The panel says yes.
2006-10-09 23:38:57 · answer #6 · answered by Reality 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
ow ask to mr.roger or philip
2006-10-09 23:39:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
yeahhhh
2006-10-09 23:38:25 · answer #8 · answered by guitlamo13 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋