USB FLASH Drive LED doesn't change

[Mike McCarty]

Tim wrote:
> 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.

Are you speaking from knowlege, or from supposition? If the software
does have control over the LED, then that would indeed be useful.

And I don't understand why you lump a whole bunch of people with
various degrees of expertise into a big glob. I know quite a few
very technical "Windows users".

Mike
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