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Date:	Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:20:59 PST8
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Re: First USB success (EVER !) in eCS

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Tom Brown wrote:

> I have a Mitsumi floppy drive with several USB flash card slots (CF,
> SmartMedia, etc.) built in.

Hi Tom,

I think I'm going to get the external version of that unit. Far fewer places seem
to carry it, though.

> I use it to read the CF card from my Canon EOS-10D digital camera. I discovered
> the hard way that if I access the card via the WPS, it writes the infernal EA
> DATA. SF file to the card, and it will no longer work in my camera. I then have to
> format it either (I think) on eCS

> or windoze berfore I can use it again.

Yes, I think it must have been you who first noted that here.

> Doing the eject thing from the drives object does NOT seem to mess it up. Eject
> from the command line also works just fine.

I just confirmed that, prior to reading your post to the List.

> I have not tempted fate by removing the card without doing an eject, althought I
> have shut the system down without ejecting the card first. No harm done.

Shutdown seems to clear the decks by default, in either OS.

> Windoze seems to have a fit, however, if you pull the card out without getting
> it's permission first.

Right. I'm wondering whether a VIO app. like ZTRee will or won't do what the WPS
does, upon access. Still, not sure I want to find out the hard way. ;-)

Jordan

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