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Date:      Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:47:18 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        johnmary@adelphia.net
Cc:        Gnome FreeBSD <freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: [BUGGLET] User mounting of  CD-ROM/RW's work fine, but ZIP's have issues
Message-ID:  <1087246038.919.76.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <1087240658.1450.7.camel@borgdemon.losaca.adelphia.net>
References:  <1087240658.1450.7.camel@borgdemon.losaca.adelphia.net>

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On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 15:17, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
> Recently, I turned on User mounting in accordance with the GNOME FAQ.=20
> I'm operating on a recent -CURRENT.
>=20
> First, CD-ROM's and CDRW's work perfectly--mounting, reading, writing,
> and ejecting (unmounting).  But . . . .
>=20
> ATAPI ZIP's don't work so well.  They do mount, read, and write, but
> unmounting/ejecting is a strictly manual (command line) operation.=20
> Moreover, if you close the ZIP drive window and then try to re-open it,
> GNOME refuses saying that the drive is busy.  It appears this occurs
> because GNOME is trying to re-mount and already mounted system.  But
> there is no "Eject" option like the CD-ROM's and no unmount choice
> either.
>=20
> My /etc/fstab line looks like:
>=20
> /dev/afd0s4  /home/johnmary/zip  msdosfs  rw,noauto  0  0
>=20
> Is this a known issue?  Can it be fixed?

ZIP drives are a bit trickier than CDs.  First, make sure you own the
mount point in question (i.e. /home/johnmary/zip) and that
vfs.usermount=3D1.  If that doesn't work, try changing the mount point to
/mnt/zip, and see if that helps.

Joe

>=20
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Joe Marcus Clarke
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