Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:08:24 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <johnmary@adelphia.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [BUGGLET] User mounting of CD-ROM/RW's work fine, but ZIP's have issues Message-ID: <20040614220824.GA62574@borgdemon.losaca.adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <1087246038.919.76.camel@gyros> References: <1087240658.1450.7.camel@borgdemon.losaca.adelphia.net> <1087246038.919.76.camel@gyros>
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 04:47:18PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 15:17, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > > Recently, I turned on User mounting in accordance with the GNOME FAQ. > > I'm operating on a recent -CURRENT. > > > > First, CD-ROM's and CDRW's work perfectly--mounting, reading, writing, > > and ejecting (unmounting). But . . . . > > > > ATAPI ZIP's don't work so well. They do mount, read, and write, but > > unmounting/ejecting is a strictly manual (command line) operation. > > 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. > > > > My /etc/fstab line looks like: > > > > /dev/afd0s4 /home/johnmary/zip msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 > > > > 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=1. If that doesn't work, try changing the mount point to > /mnt/zip, and see if that helps. > Check, I own /home/johnmary/zip. It's permissions and ownership are identical to /home/johnmary/cdrom. vfs.usermount is set to 1. I'll try using /mnt/zip in fstab and report back. jmc > Joe > -- > Joe Marcus Clarke > FreeBSD GNOME Team :: marcus@FreeBSD.org > gnome@FreeBSD.org > FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome > http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome >
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