Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:47:18 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: johnmary@adelphia.net Cc: Gnome FreeBSD <freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: [BUGGLET] User mounting of CD-ROM/RW's work fine, but ZIP's have issues Message-ID: <1087246038.919.76.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <1087240658.1450.7.camel@borgdemon.losaca.adelphia.net> References: <1087240658.1450.7.camel@borgdemon.losaca.adelphia.net>
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--=-P+I7NAi5KCng6m3yrzlT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 15:17, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > Recently, I turned on User mounting in accordance with the GNOME FAQ.=20 > I'm operating on a recent -CURRENT. >=20 > First, CD-ROM's and CDRW's work perfectly--mounting, reading, writing, > and ejecting (unmounting). But . . . . >=20 > ATAPI ZIP's don't work so well. They do mount, read, and write, but > unmounting/ejecting is a strictly manual (command line) operation.=20 > Moreover, if you close the ZIP drive window and then try to re-open it, > GNOME refuses saying that the drive is busy. It appears this occurs > because GNOME is trying to re-mount and already mounted system. But > there is no "Eject" option like the CD-ROM's and no unmount choice > either. >=20 > My /etc/fstab line looks like: >=20 > /dev/afd0s4 /home/johnmary/zip msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 >=20 > Is this a known issue? Can it be fixed? ZIP drives are a bit trickier than CDs. First, make sure you own the mount point in question (i.e. /home/johnmary/zip) and that vfs.usermount=3D1. If that doesn't work, try changing the mount point to /mnt/zip, and see if that helps. Joe >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: marcus@FreeBSD.org gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-P+I7NAi5KCng6m3yrzlT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAzg7Wb2iPiv4Uz4cRAnZiAKCvQTBe52O9f7lz7Ss09Dk04mC9fgCfab33 OQkYEpgxOBYQbwk2fMypm1g= =5oEe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-P+I7NAi5KCng6m3yrzlT--
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