USB FLASH Drive LED doesn't change

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sat Nov 11 04:07:27 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 13:34 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> simply flashing when the device is being written does not sound
> adequate for any system which does disc write caching with write-back
> policy rather than write-through, and I know for a fact that MS
> Windows after 3.x do that. So I wonder just what use the LED is unless
> the software which mounts it has some control over it. 

Just eye-candy for the Windows users...

Well, you can plug it and see it light up, so you know you've plugged
into a socket that's connected to something, but that's about all it's
good for.

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