[ILUG] Fw: friend's zip drive problem

[Shane Dempsey]

Hi guys,
a friend of mine asked me to forward this
problem to the list. If anyone has any ideas
that might sort this problem out he'd greatly appreciate
it. Reply direct to rcrawford at tssg.wit.ie
if you wish.

    ...shane

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Crawford" <rcrawford at tssg.wit.ie>
To: <sdempsey at tssg.wit.ie>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 10:36 AM


> --
>
> Hi, I`ve had a look through the previous discussions and can`t find what
I`m
> looking for.
>
> I have a Zip100 drive mounted on my Linux machine (Dell XPS T700r, 256MB,
> SuSE 6.3, kernel 2.2.13) under /dev/hdd4
>
> Normally it works without any problems, but occasionally, after I unmount
a
> disk and mount a different disk, a  ls  shows the contents of the previous
> disk, not the new disk.  It then tells me that the disk has been mounted
> readonly.
>
> I`ve tried remounting the original disk, but that`s now readonly too.
>
> A  mount  tells me that the disk is mounted  rw, and the only solution to
> getting the Zip working properly is to hard reboot the machine.  Obviously
> not ideal!
>
> Does anyone know if this is a common problem?
>
> I am sharing the Zip drive through Samba, allowing access through Linux
and
> my VMWare virtual machine.  I stop Samba when umounting, but this doesn`t
> seem to have any effect.
>
> Cheers.