On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 01:50:10PM -0400, kyle forinash wrote: > Hi; > > I'm not exactly sure what I did to make this (sort of) work; maybe > downloading mtools did it (I could not get iwlcontainer-lnx-x86-10.tgz > from Iomega (http://www.iomega.com/software/ ) to work). Anyway I can > now mount, see and read data on the zip disk. > > However. When I tried to copy a directory onto the disk it sort of when > berserk. I can hear it accessing repeatedly for 15 min. I could not kill > -9 the cp command (!?!) . I finally rebooted to get the disk out. I put > the disk in a windoz machine: some of the copying seemed to have worked > but with shortened (8 character upper case) names (I don't know much > about fat vs other format but this looks like the problem). I've put > the disk back into the Linux box and on mount /mnt/zip (no cp command) > it has gone back into this clicking/access mode. "umount: /mnt/zip: > device is busy" So ... what now? > > kyle
I had a very similar problem. Only, it was a CD-ROM drive. The activity light was on, so I thought maybe it was like a floppy - if the drive doesn't get deactivated by the bootcode, it would keep spinning until first use. So, i did something like: dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/null bs=2k count=1 Instant hang. Ctl-C didn't work. kill -9 didn't work. Lots of something-bad-is-happening kernel messages. I had to reboot. A new cdrom drive fixed it for me... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
