10-20-2003, 11:39 PM -
I'm also the owner of an iPod since about two weeks, and no, disconnecting is not good, with any storage device. With the initial firmware, I had Explorer crashes several times, had to reboot, after about 4 times I got errors on a few files. Luckily, Apple provides a nice format utility which worked great. It does show that disconnecting while it may be busy is bad. Should've thought about that a bit more before posting your comments IceCaveman 
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With the new firmware it hasn't crashed yet btw, if you haven't got it already I really recommend it (also fixed a backlight issue for me
). Even though it may not harm the disk, I feel safer when I disconnect the hardware the propert way... conclusion: the disconnecting thing is a great idea!
I had no idea that Eject did the same, that might make it easier. A way to disconnect hardware in general might be a better idea though, as it still shows "this hardware was not properly disconnected" in Windows 2000, even though the iPod showed it was safe. I have no idea how to accomplish it yet, but I will start searching. If Yuri is too busy for such a plugin it can be easily done with an external application which allows a shortcut to it, that would be just as fine for me (as I can make that myself)... if I get any code working, I'll let you know...
.With the new firmware it hasn't crashed yet btw, if you haven't got it already I really recommend it (also fixed a backlight issue for me
). Even though it may not harm the disk, I feel safer when I disconnect the hardware the propert way... conclusion: the disconnecting thing is a great idea!I had no idea that Eject did the same, that might make it easier. A way to disconnect hardware in general might be a better idea though, as it still shows "this hardware was not properly disconnected" in Windows 2000, even though the iPod showed it was safe. I have no idea how to accomplish it yet, but I will start searching. If Yuri is too busy for such a plugin it can be easily done with an external application which allows a shortcut to it, that would be just as fine for me (as I can make that myself)... if I get any code working, I'll let you know...