REboot on Thumb Drive removal

[wings515]

I had stored a program on a USB thumb drive and removed it while I replaced the receiver. After full installation and operation for over two months of the new Hopper, I re-inserted the thumb drive and transfered the program from the USB drive back to the Hopper HDD. I viewed the program and went back to look to see what size it was on the thumb drive and the USB drive appeared to be empty. Looks like the transfer to the hard drive removes the file from the USB drive.
As an experiment I restored the program to the USB drive and it used about 1GB of the drive. Being somewhat computer savy, I looked to see if there was a way to stop the drive to "safely remove" the drive from the Hopper. Not finding a way, I removed the drive with the Hopper still ON. Much to my surprise, the Hopper went into full reboot.
My question is, is this normal? Should I have turned OFF the Hopper? Shouldn't there be a "Safe Removal" function for a USB drive? What would have happend with an external HDD on the USB port?

Regards,
wings515

 

[lucky86]

If you remove an EHD a message appears notifying you that it was removed but it doesn't cause a reboot.

 

[kwindrem]

I didn't think Dish supported USB flash drives for program storage.

Transfers to/from an external drive is a MOVE, not a COPY. After moving the program from the external drive to the Hopper, it will be removed from the external.

There is no "safe remove" feature on Dish receivers. You will get a warning unplugging or plugging in an external drive but as long as a transfer is not in progress at the time all should be fine.

The reboot is not normal. I'd try again to see if it was a random occurrence. This might be due to the use of a flash drive instead of a external hard drive. Dish requires external storage to be externally powered (not via the USB port) but does support flash memory for picture storage so this probably isn't an issue here.

Turning "off" Hopper doesn't really do much. The screen goes blank but all internals continue to function.