My understanding is that this features main purpose is to ensure that windows checks that it has stopped writing to a device to prevent data loss or corruption, and that the device has been powered down.

See a short discussion here:

http://forums.eyo.com.au/showthread.php?t=100650


Bob J. Guam U.S.A.


At08:32 AM 3/25/2005, Bernie Cosell wrote the following message:
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>I'm never sure about the 'rules' for removing devices. fanfare...
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>Is that safe? ...
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>Bernie Cosell
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