On Friday 06 September 2002 10:53, Frederic Crozat wrote: > On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 16:46:55 +0100, Alastair Scott wrote: > > --=-uv4Dj+q907OgonNFRe5O > > Content-Type: text/plain > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 14:25, H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: > >> I thought the whole idea was that this should be automated now. Does > >> the= > > > > =20 > > > >> 'automated' part only apply to the mounting and not to the > >> unmounting? In other words, is this a feature or is this a bug? > > > > It looks like a bug, and I reported it during the 'great mail server > > outage' but it appears that that post never got through. So ... > > > > I have a Sony Clie PEG-425T and used to mount its memory stick 'by > > hand' from the command line as /dev/sda1.=20 > > > > With the automated facility, under Gnome I see a 'removable' icon on > > the desktop (with the rather inappropriate appearance of a hard disk!) > > but: > > > > i. the icon appears to be stuck there forever and never goes away, > > even when the Clie is taken out of the cradle and the PC rebooted > > without it; > > Indeed.. Because it is using supermount.. No problem here.. > > > ii. the 'Unmount Volume' command has no effect. > > In supermount mode, "Unmount Volume" doesn't do anything since you are > not root.. I'll try to hide it (no garantee) > > > iii. the entry in /etc/fstab looks like > > > > none /mnt/removable supermount > > dev=3D/dev/sda1,fs=3Dauto,--,iocharset=3Diso8859-15,codepage=3D850,uma > >sk=3D= 0 0 0 > > > > This looks OK, but doesn't explain the unmounting not happening: I > > have to issue umount -a /dev/sda1 from the command line to actually do > > it. > > There is no unmounting because usb-storage doesn't remove the /dev/sda1 > entry when clié is no longer connected.. Therefore, there is no way to > know the device is here or not :((
Can this be changed in the usb-storage module or is nobody willing to touch the kernel modules issues at this point, or is it simply too difficult? Narfi.
