From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H2Wm0-0000C5-8t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:53:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l04Hn3Qm030431; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:49:03 GMT Received: from smtp1.iway.na (smtp1.iway.na [196.44.136.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l04HeoUA009495 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:40:51 GMT Received: from vscan.iway.na (vscan.iway.na [196.44.136.13]) by smtp1.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id 821A5649F for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 19:40:46 +0200 (WAST) Received: from mx2.iway.na (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vscan.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id C76B3AFF1A for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 19:40:47 +0200 (WAST) Received: from uwix.alt.na ([196.44.156.83]) by mx2.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id JBCUG001.WZJ for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 19:40:48 +0200 Received: from uwe by uwix.alt.na with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H2W9L-0005Uu-SE for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:13:08 +0200 From: Uwe Thiem Organization: SysEx (Pty) Ltd. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 19:13:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <459C9066.3000804@lockie.ca> <7573e9640701040720v31038f49g98ecd3f540aad9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640701040720v31038f49g98ecd3f540aad9@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701041913.07754.uwix@iway.na> Sender: Uwe Thiem X-Archives-Salt: 40332d09-2aa4-499f-a02c-a2166e5192c9 X-Archives-Hash: 038b1f9ac1b39c4cf6a43ad545cc79e9 On 04 January 2007 17:20, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/3/07, James Lockie wrote: > > Does anyone have one of these? :-) > > It mounts when I connect it but a user can't unmount it. > > My USB memory stick and USB card reader work fine. > > It is only the hard drive that I can't unmount as a user. > > I don't have or want an /etc/fstab entry for it, I should be able to > > configure KDE to handle it. > > So it mounts fine, but you can't unmount it? I've seen this happen, > and fixed it by telling konqueror not to keep any instances > pre-loaded. The problem seems to be that if you browse the drive > using konqueror, it chdir()'s to the drive, and stays there, so any > attempts to unmount it report "busy". That was so once. Haven't had any such trouble lately (KDE 3.5.5). Anyway, don't you think James would run into the same problem with memory sticks? He explicitly states above that it only occurs with his drive. That said, I don't know what causes this behaviour. ;-( Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list