USB Flash Disk + data not sync'ed during unload

David Martin dlmarti at gmail.com
Wed Sep 1 02:29:32 UTC 2004


Just because the OS & PC think the card is done moving data around,
doesn't mean it is.
Flash cards are weird beasts.

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:17:23 +0800, Ow Mun Heng <ow.mun.heng at wdc.com> wrote:
> Guys,
> 
>         this is causing data curruption. I'm using Gnome + FC2 and wondering
> why the act of umounting the drive does not call the "sync" before it's
> marked as unmounted?
> 
> Right now, what I see happening is that, when you click on the Unmount
> VOlume icon, the icon will straight away gets changed to the unmounted
> status, but data is only starting to get sync'ed. And I've unknowingly
> just pulled out the disk before it fully sync's.
> 
> This is not good.
> I think I might have fried a 64MB key not too long ago due to this.
> 
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