On our office network there is a particular disk -- an external Firewire drive attached to an eMac -- that if mounted on a remote computer cannot be unmounted. Here's a description of what happens:
1. Disk (let's call it Drive A) is accessed over the network from, say, my PowerBook. It appears on my desktop as expected and I am able to copy files to and from it. After I'm finished using Drive A, I select it and press Cmd-E to "eject" or unmount it. I notice that it does not immediately go away, so I try to click on it and then it does disappear. However, if I open up a new window (with the side panel open so I can see mounted drives), Drive A is still listed in that window as being mounted, even though it does not show up on the Desktop. I try clicking on the "disconnect" icon in the side panel and nothing happens. If I go to the computer that this drive is physically attached to and try to unmount it there, I get the message "this disk is in use and could not be ejected." If I run Disk Utility on it, I get "Repairing disk failed with error Could not unmount disk." Other network users are unable to access the disk. The only way I can find to make the disk usable again is to restart the computer it's attached to. Has anyone else run into this problem, or have any ideas about possible causes/solutions? Thanks. Dan | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be June 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
