Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Yes of course, but the point I was making was that I did not need to unmount (aka flushing write data to) the USB device in Windows, and was allowed to remove it once there's no program writing to it. Of course, I've also been told that under Win 2K or XP too I can do the same. I usually take the safe way out - humour Windows and use the "unplug safely" function.
But my q still stands. How come Win 98 doesn't give me a tray app for unmounting the USB device? Of course, such a complaint is better on a Windows list, but still, if Win 98 could do it, Win 2K or Win XP could too, just tell the user that the device can be pulled out when there's no write operation.
I don't recall the details in W98, but if it allowed you to simply unplug the USB drive, then they weren't caching the data. In XP and W2000, you are supposed to click on that button, to make it safe to remove. This implies that the data is cached and by clicking, you're flushing the cache. If you only read, you don't have to worry about this, on any OS.