Mandrake 8 and an ATAPI ZIP 250

[Mars]

OK, I'm really enjoying Mandrake. I'm a newbie but spinning up fast.

I just have this simple little problem. I'm using KDE for my desktop. I've kinda' grown attached to it but the damn thing won't allow me to eject my ZIP (Iomega 250) disk.

My fstab looks like this:

/dev/hdc5 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hdc2 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
/mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/ 0 0
/mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc6 swap swap defaults 0 0

The eject command (eject zip) only works when I haven't accessed the drive. Once I've accessed the drive in KDE, I have to re-boot to eject the drive.

umount doesn't work unless I'm root.

Thanks ahead of time for your help!

:cool:

[bdg1983]

Are you still accessing the zip drive when you try to eject? File Manager open for the zip or anything else that could be holding it? Commandline access? i.e. cd /mnt/zip

You need to cd / (out of the mounted zip directory before you can eject/umount.

If you opened using a shortcut on the desktop for the zip, then close the file manager and then rightclick on the zip icon and select eject.

[Mars]

Thanks, but that doesn't do it.

eject zip works until I access the drive with Konqueror. Even if I close Konqueror, I still get:

[bruce@localhost bruce]$ eject zip
eject: unable to eject, last error: Input/output error
[bruce@localhost bruce]$

The only thing I can seem to do at this point to eject the zip (I can't even do a manual hardware eject) is to re-boot.

I haven't tried a file manager other than konqueror to re-creat this yet. I'll give that a try, but I've no great hope that It'll work.

Keep thinking!

Thanks!