What error messages do you get? By dismount I presume you mean "umount"?
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Nick Piggott wrote: > Hello, > > I have a "generic" USB key drive (Wisher Enterprise), which is being > correctly detected and mounted by my system (RH 8, kernel 2.4.20-20.8). > A lsmod shows usb-storage loaded as a module, and the device appears as > /dev/sda1. > > If I power the machine up with the Key Drive in the USB port, I can make > successful read/write/delete transactions. When I dismount the drive, it > seems to take 8-12 seconds to dismount. > > However, if I either mount the drive after power up, or remount the > drive after it has been dismounted, I can read files successfully, but > no *changes* are committed to the drive. > > For instance - I can delete a file, append text to another file, and > create a directory on /mnt/usbkey (which is my mount point). Subsequent > ls /mnt/usbkey shows these changes (and I can see the same in Nautilus). > So all seems well. > > If I then try and dismount the drive, sometimes it does it successfully, > sometimes it says that something is still accessing /mnt/usbkey (which I > can't find). > > When I remount the drive none of the changes have been committed, > leaving the data intact. > > Much as this secret "write protect" function might be useful, it's a > real irritation. Unfortunately the same drive performs faultlessly on > WinXP/2k.A dmesg brings nothing useful. > > Any thoughts on a next step - or am I better off throwing my key out and > buying into one with a known pedigree. > > Regards > > > > Nick > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware > With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. > WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines > at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
