On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 14:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe there's a command to do that, called 'rmmod'. :) If you unload the > driver, then there should be nothing left inside the Linux that thinks > the device still exists.
wouldn't that interrupt the syncing? > > Actually, I think that perhaps the USB subsystem should have been > constructed a bit more closely approximating that of the PCMCIA/Cardbus > subsystem, with notions of a device being inserted, disconnecting a > device, and so on. i guess the USB standards committee focused more on peripherals such as keyboards, mice, joystick, etc. than on mass storage devices. maybe they never thought that it would also be used for storage devices. -justin -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
