I realize that I'm probably the only person on the planet who actually does the "safely remove hardware" dance before I unplug one of my USB hard drives... but... much of the time [I'd say about half the time], when I go to turn-off the device, I get "generic device cannot be stopped" and it won't undo the device for me (and it advises for me to try again later, which seems never to work -- if it fails at first it just *wont* unmount the device). I cannot correlate it with anything [of course I never have any programs running that have an open file or directory on the device, not running an 'explorer' or anything like that]. Generally, after I try two or three times to unmount the drive, I just decide to hell with it and unplug it... [and so far, no problems..:o)]
But it leaves me curious: what *IS* this generic device [one of three services that have to be stopped whenever I'm undoing a hard drive], why does it sometimes refuse to stop, and is there some way to "coax" it to stop [and/or, is just ignoring its non-stoppage OK]. Thanks! /bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
