Yes. However as noted by another poster you need to ensure the "drive" has been unmounted. On my Fedora Core 3 powered laptop I presently have both my camera and external HDD connected via USB. Both are treated as USB Storage devices as a USB memory stick would be. When I connect them they are automatically mounted by hotplug and the hal/d-bus is told about them so Nautilus shows nice little icons on the Gnome desktop. Before I remove the devices I right click on them and select "Unmount Volume". You can do the same with an "unmount /mnt/usbdisk" or "unmount /media/usbdisk" from the command line. It is important to make sure you unmount removable media before unplugging or else you may cause file system corruption and loose data. In Windows it is the same. You should right click on USB or Flash devices in Explorer and select "Eject" before removing the device. However windows can sometimes not recognise USB devices as "ejectable" media and doesn't provide the Eject choice. In that case it is safest to use the stop removable device control panel applet. Though I have noticed windows sometimes refusing to stop devices because it thinks they are in use for inexplicable reasons. Regards On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 18:06 +1300, Judy & Lindsay Roberts wrote:
Is it safe to connect and disconnect USB Memory sticks with the power on?
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