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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 1996 17:54:14 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, mmead@Glock.COM
Cc:        scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: a little bit more information on the jaz drive situation...
Message-ID:  <199603190654.RAA06722@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>	The suggestion you made about ffs_unmount() and
>vn_close() halfway worked.  I reversed the order of the calls,
>and the drives are now able to eject once they've been unmounted.
>Unfortunately, however, something is still wrong because if you
>try to reinsert the cartridge and mount it again, it ends up
>complaining that the device is busy.  I'm guessing here, but does
>this have something to do with some other counter not being
>decremented properly so that the kernel thinks the device is
>still being used?

Try the fix in -current.

The bug affects my zip drive too.  It worked a week or two ago, but
not today for ufs mounted file systems.  It still works for ext2fs
mounted file systems because there is no vmio stuff for ext2fs.

Bruce


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