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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!IN-Berlin.DE!fub!mind.de!nostromo.in-berlin.de!ripley From: ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de (H. Eckert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1.6 & Iomega Jaz Date: 19 Mar 1997 21:11:40 GMT Organization: Private access site (FreeBSD 2.1-R), Berlin, Germany, Europe Lines: 33 Message-ID: <slrn5j0lkc.dco.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> References: <5gbon2$k5s@info.nask.pl> <332acaf8.0@finesse.isdn.uni-konstanz.de> <slrn5imiq9.a0.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> <332F43BF.3B4A@OntheNet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37417 tonyg@OntheNet.com.au (Tony Griffiths): > From memory (I don't have my 2 Zip drives connected to a FreeBSD system > at the moment), the Zip drive doesn't allow ejecting while a filesystem is > mounted! At least that's the way it works on my Macintoshs. The Win95 machine of a friend, however, doesn't bother to lock the Disk so you have to eject it manually, anyway. (The concept of mount/umount is quite alien to the M$-world.) > However, I don't think it "remembers" that the eject button was pushed > so it should 'automatically' eject when the umount is complete. Isn't the ejection done by the driver ? Do I understand it correctly that the Jaz-Drive remembers the eject being pressed so it thinks the disk is ejected (althogh the mount-lock prevented that step) so the Jaz-Disk isn't ejected anymore at the dismount ? Either the system doesn't send a eject command at all (and my guess is that this is indeed true since my CD-ROMs tray doesn't open when I unmount a CD) or it does and the Jaz-Drive is stuck (in which case I'd call it a firmware bug and give Iomega something to think on). I'll probably add a SCSI-controller to my PC soon, so we'll see what happens... Greetings, Ripley -- H. Eckert, 10777 Berlin, Germany ISO 8859-1: Ä=Ae, Ö=Oe, Ü=Ue, ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue, ß=sz. "(Technobabbel)" (Jetrel) - "Müssen wir uns diesen Schwachsinn wirklich anhören?" (Neelix)