thanks fedora

[Robert Holtzman]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:15:19PM +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:51:21PM +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > > Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 07:39:24PM +0530, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote:
> > > > > Thanks for your enlightening remarks - .exe => windows
> > > > > executable - now I know, but I don't get my answer of why the
> > > > > PD keeps displaying light even after the selection of unmount
> > > > > option in Ubuntu 9.04.
> > > > 
> > > > How do you know it's still mounted?
> > > 
> > > Please read again the question you quoted. It was not suggested
> > > that something was still mounted but the question was why the
> > > light is still on. That are two totally different things.
> > 
> > Check out his posts starting Sep 22. He was talking about the
> > light saying on after clicking Unmount in Places -> Computer
> > and /home??!!?? I wanted him to verify that the drive was unmounted.
> 
> OK, I reread the entire thread. I'm not sure, but I think the use of 
> /home as a description as a mount point was more a mix-up. And I'm also 
> not so sure if he really thought the device was still mounted, it was 
> more a concern of something not working right / as expected, i.e. like 
> it used to be with Fedora or Windows.

I phrased the question poorly, however, it wasn't a matter of what he
thought, it was that I wanted him to verify that it was or wasn't
mounted. 
  
> > > > Do you even know how to find out?
> > > 
> > > Who cares? That was not the question.
> > 
> > *I* would care. Don't know about you but if I ran into that problem I
> > would want to see if the drive was mounted. If it wasn't it *might*
> > occur to me that it was only a  power indicator, Meet with your
> > approval?
> 
> Maybe there are pen drives with differing bahaviour regarding the light. 
> Mine has the light on while the USB port is powered and it is blinking 
> during read / write operations. I think the ones I had previously 
> behaved the same. That seems to be different to the pen drives you know, 
> according to what you wrote in a previous mail.

True. What sort/brand of drives do you have that behave as you
described?

> 
> > > > To sum up, it looks like you have a lot of homework to do.
> > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > 
> > > Can you elaborate? What type of homework do you suggest? Instead of
> > > answering RTFM, please at least point to TFM.
> > 
> > I didn't tell him to RTFM because I doubt there is an FM that covers
> > this but he could have run a search on the problem and checked out
> > the manufacturer's web site for any support. You know this better
> > than I. I saw no indication of any research thus the homework
> > comment.
> 
> To me that comment looked like RTFM, only disguised with other words. 
> Granted, there was no indication of any research from the OP in his 
> previous mails. OTOH, I wouldn't expect to find the info on the 
> manufacturer's web site. I just tried that for my pen drive but as usual 
> there was only some information for Windows and Mac users.

True, but every once in a while you find a manufacturer that will offer
some kind of support. I just checked the Sony site (my pen drives) and
they talk about the read/write light in a FAQ. There's no excuse for
not, at least, trying.

> 
> > > You seem to know
> > > everything about the subject
> > 
> > I never said that nor did I imply it.
> 
> True, you didn't write it but your homework comment seemed to imply it. 
> Probably I read too much between the lines, so I take that back.

I have gotten into trouble a number of times for doing that.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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