On Sunday 15 April 2001 10:12, you wrote:
> On my zip drive there's a small, translucent plastic button. When the
> drive is accessed the button glows green. I've watched that button glow
> for a year. I used windoze and always ejected the cartridge via a
> software command. I never thought to press it until I read your
> suggestion. So, I give it a try, just to see what happens, and low and
> behold, the drive ejects the cartridge whether I umount it first, or
> not.
>
> I knew as soon as I sent my request for help that it sounded pretty
> lame. I knew I'd get some reply about pressing the eject button,
> something I knew I didn't have one of. Well...
>
> Thanks very much from a newly commissioned officer of the brain dead
> newbie division.
>
> I assume I need to umount /mnt/zip before I eject the cartridge? Like
> not ejecting a floppy without unmounting the file, first?
>
if you are using supermount, you might be able to get away without
unmounting it (that's the main idea behind supermount), otherwise you
will eventually run into problems if you do not unmount before pressing
the button.
You can always use the eject command, which will do an unmount prior to
ejecting the disk, be careful though, the springs in some zip drives
will send a disk flying.
--
Alex
Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
