Re: "Safely" removing USB hard drive

"Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.questions,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 02:36, Remington L. wrote:
> I have a USB keychain storage device. I can get it working fine but I cant
> figure out how to properly disconnect it. In windows I can detach the drive
> and the LED on the USB keychain goes off. Can this be accomplished in FBSD
> 5.1? Or is unmounting and simply removing it safe?

Simply unmounting it should be good enough.  "camcontrol stop" will
probably do what you want (*after* unmounting it).

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brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] [email protected]
system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] [email protected]
electrical and computer engineering                              KF8NH
carnegie mellon university  [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls]

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