On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 17:45, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > > > > > > > > > There is no unmounting because usb-storage doesn't remove the > > /dev/sda1 > > > > entry when cli� is no longer connected.. Therefore, there is no > way > > to > > > > know the device is here or not :(( > > > > > > > It tries to remove it. But it can't because it is held busy by > > supermount :( > > > > Sorry, wrong. It is really usb-storage - it registers SCSI host every > time you plug in your USB storage but unregisters them just once on > module unloading. > > > > Can this be changed in the usb-storage module or is nobody willing > to > > > touch > > > the kernel modules issues at this point, or is it simply too > > difficult? > > > > > > > It is way too dangerous at this point but should be possible.
It's not a serious problem, but takes getting used to (from my experience with MacOS I expect the icon, in this situation, to disappear and reappear :) I find everything works perfectly if I do things in the following order: i. put the Clie in the cradle and start the connection (via MS Import); ii. power up the PC and boot into Mandrake. iii. don't unmount then remount the Clie [via the command line] thereafter. If I _do_ unmount and remount things can get very confused, with error messages of the type '<mount directory> is a read-only filesystem' on trying to copy files to the Memory Stick either via Nautilus or the command line. I've also noticed that j-pilot doesn't work when the Memory Stick is mounted. This is again not a surprise, as the Clie is trying to sync and maintain the supermount at the same time, but probably needs to be pointed out somewhere. However, for all its quirks the supermount is _far_ more convenient than Windows when a proprietary Sony application has to be installed to recognise the Memory Stick as a drive ... and triggers crashes galore :) Alastair
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