That's actually a design feature of the usb-storage driver. We may have to change it to accomodate those devices which don't indicate media-change properly, unfortunately.
It appears that the 'popular' OSes assume media-change when the device is removed/reinserted. Sony MemoryStick devices are notorious for this problem. Matt On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 01:12:49PM -0700, Aurel Wisse wrote: > Just for the record Matthew. Yesterday, by accident, I > unplugged my Maxtor 3000LE *without* umount, but > replugging it without trying to access data on the > disk. Interestingly, everything worked fine, as if the > scsi layer didn't notice ;-). I was then able to > navigate the disk as if it were never gone, and > ungplug it cleanly with the umount unplug sequence. > > I was quite impressed by this. > > Regards, Aurel > > > --- Matthew Dharm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Unplug without umount is bad. Autofs is _not_ > > designed to handle this > > case. > > > > You need to umount, then eject the device to get the > > size change > > recognized. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > http://health.yahoo.com -- Matthew Dharm Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver Dudes! May the Open Source be with you. -- Eric S. Raymond User Friendly, 12/3/1998
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