My laptop dual-boots between Ubuntu and Windows XP. Sometimes I hook my Blackberry Storm up to the computer when the computer is running Linux, and sometimes when it is running XP. The Storm can be set into "mass storage" mode, where its internal memory appears to Linux or Windows as one USB drive, and the Storm's flash memory card appears as a separate USB drive.
When I am through transferring data to or from the Storm, if I am using XP, I click on "safely disconnect hardware", which flushes any pending data to the Storm and marks its file system as clean. Unfortunately, the equivalent process in Ubuntu, telling it to unmount the Storm's file system, doesn't work, although it does work successfully if I have plugged in an actual USB thumb drive. I simply have to unplug the USB cable and hope that I got a clean result. Normally, this works OK. Tonight, however, the file system on the Storm's flash memory card apparently got marked as "dirty", and, once disconnected from the laptop, the Storm refused to mount the flash memory card. I had to boot up XP, have it check the file system on the memory card, and then click "safely disconnect hardware". Once that was done, and the Storm was disconnected from the computer, it went back to being willing to use the memory card. Can anyone tell me what step to use to make Ubuntu cleanly unmount the Storm's file systems, since telling it to unmount the drive (using the Thunar file manager application) results in an error message, saying that an error occurred when it tried to unmount the drive? As I said earlier, this unmounting technique works fine if I have an actual thumb drive plugged into the laptop. -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
