From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: November 28, 2005 6:27:55 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: DMK camera fixes itself - is there some kind of timeout?

Anthony;

On 28-Nov-05, at 5:08 PM, wesley_ae wrote:

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Milton Aupperle" <milton@o...> wrote:

Here is part of your original post:

> What your doing is just not a "smart thing" to do and if you try

that with

> any device that is actively transmitting data, the results are

> unpredictable. That's the same thing as simply pulling the plug on

> your Mac while it's copying files, rather than shutting it down form

> the Apple menu. If you do that with a IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB or

> FireWire hard drive while transferring files, you can lose entire

> volume as the disk map can become corrupted - let alone kernel panics

> and other fun things.

Read it carefully - you say that unplugging the video is "the same

thing" as unplugging a hard drive while it's copying files, and will

lead to kernel panics etc.

I said

"and if you try that with any device that is actively transmitting data, the results are unpredictable".

which means exactly that, unpredictable. Then I go on to give examples of what unpredictable can lead too by mentioning with different transport methods for hard drives which could cause file corruption.

Perhaps I'm being a bit too dramatic on the negative side of what can happen, but having had hard drive becomes corrupted or destroyed over the past 20 years of PC development work makes me a bit paranoid, especially when it can be prevented.

Milton J. Aupperle

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