On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:53:22 -0800, Lew Wolfgang
Hi Patrick,
I think he did RTFM.
From page 292 of the 9.2 SuSE Administration Guide:
"SUSE Linux supports the automatic detection of moble storage devices over fireware or USB... The user is completely spared the manual mounting and unmounting that was found in previous versions of SUSE LINUX. Device can simply be dosconnected as soon as no program accesses it."
These devices use SUBFS and SUBMOUNT, of which I know very little. Maybe they don't buffer writes to IEEE 1394 and USB storage?
Left as an exercise for the student is determining when "no program accesses it", which gets back to the backwards light again...
Regards, Lew Wolfgang
OP does not specify version. I'm with 9.1 here. Sunny -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85