I think it's likely that the external Firewire disk (itself) needs repair.
Have you run Disk Utility on it when it's NOT connected/mounted over your network? ?that is to say, mount to one machine directly and run the utility on it (thoroughly) to see if problems exist? Regards, Russ Preston On Jul 3, 2006, at 3:20 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > 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>
