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Printer question re:Macbook pro
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1513240" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>Regardless of OS (Windows, OS X, Linux) you need to eject the drive before pulling it out. You will get a message/warning in all of the OS'. Without going into the details of why this needs to happen, know that ejecting the USB flash drive means that any pending writes are finished/flushed to ensure that the contents on the flash drive are accurate.</p><p></p><p>A printer is a different type of USB device and doesn't fall into the restriction of needing to eject..</p><p></p><p>FYI, USB has classifications of different types of devices that operate differently. USB flash drive, an external enclosure that has a SSD/HDD act USB Mass Storage class. Mouse, keyboard, and other display things fall into HID (Human Interface Device) class..printer is yet another class..</p><p></p><p>The reason the printer, mouse or keyboard can be plugged in and out without any consequences is that nothing from these devices is "mounted" or made available within the filesystem of the OS. These are devices that are used if plugged in and not if they aren't plugged in..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1513240, member: 110816"] Regardless of OS (Windows, OS X, Linux) you need to eject the drive before pulling it out. You will get a message/warning in all of the OS'. Without going into the details of why this needs to happen, know that ejecting the USB flash drive means that any pending writes are finished/flushed to ensure that the contents on the flash drive are accurate. A printer is a different type of USB device and doesn't fall into the restriction of needing to eject.. FYI, USB has classifications of different types of devices that operate differently. USB flash drive, an external enclosure that has a SSD/HDD act USB Mass Storage class. Mouse, keyboard, and other display things fall into HID (Human Interface Device) class..printer is yet another class.. The reason the printer, mouse or keyboard can be plugged in and out without any consequences is that nothing from these devices is "mounted" or made available within the filesystem of the OS. These are devices that are used if plugged in and not if they aren't plugged in.. [/QUOTE]
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