Don't try to eject a drive when you've got files open or are copying large amounts of data to or from it. If nothing seems to be using the drive, use Terminal to highlight any background services that ...
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Safe ejection is good practice as it can prevent data corruption, but incidents are relatively rare. Modern OS and device caching reduce failure risk, so abrupt removal usually causes no harm. It's ...
I'm running Win2k on my Dell PII-350. It has an Iomega ATAPI ZIP-100 drive. For some reason, the drive is being write-cached. If I save a large file to it, it'll write only some data, once a second, ...
<B>Apple Slot Combo Drive update fixes eject failure</B><BR><BR>From MacFixit:<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Apple has issued ...