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I'd also wonder about how old this part is and whether it's partially based on Windows. USB behavior on Windows used to be optimized for speed and would do caching (hence the need to eject flash drives before removal) but in one of the Win10 updates it was changed to safe removal which basically disables write caching on removable devices. So, at least on Windows, there was absolutely a time where the OS would report completion before things were actually written.


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