i have bought uno board yesterday and when i pluck out the usb cable, my system(WINDOWS) makes sound (like when we remove a pen drive directly ) SO HOW DO WE REMOVE IT SAFELY?
i have bought uno board yesterday and when i pluck out the usb cable, my system(WINDOWS) makes sound (like when we remove a pen drive directly ) SO HOW DO WE REMOVE IT SAFELY?
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Why do you think that you aren't removing the Arduino safely?
The unsafe removal message applies to USB storage, which can lose data if pulled out while a write is in progress.
You can just pull the lead out with your Arduino. At least I have been doing regularly for several years now, with no ill effects. USB is designed to (un)plug and play.
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The only issue I know of (and this isn't on Windows) is that if the serial console is open and you unplug sometimes the Arduino software starts using 100% cpu on the thread that was talking to the USB port - easily cured by closing the serial console (I notice my laptop fan ramping up when this happens).
Obviously its worth avoiding unpluging while downloading a sketch, but I don't think any permanent harm can happen except when burning a bootloader where an interruption might leave the chip unusable perhaps?
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