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rdsii64:
My zip drive works ok with suse but there is one little problem that drives me nuts. once i put th zip disk in the machine won't eject it when I want to take it out. the button on the zip drive won't work and when i click on the zip icon i don't have an "eject" to pick from like the cd icon has. if it matters I am using suse 7.3 personal.

thanx
Ron

voidmain:
If you cannot eject the disk, it would most likely mean that the disk is still mounted. A workaround would be to open up a shell prompt and type "mount" to see which devices are mounted. Say the zip disk is mounted on "/mnt/zip" you would type "umount /mnt/zip" to unmount it, then you should be able to eject it.

Personally I have mine set up to automatically mount the zip disk at the point I decide to access it. And it will automatically unmount after nothing has used it for around a minute. Of course if a process is using the disk you can not unmount it. Even if you just have a shell open and have "cd'ed" to a directory on the zip drive.

You should be able to configure your zip drive ICON to allow you to mount/unmount the zip drive, just like a CD or floppy ICON. Do you use KDE?

Calum:
so folks, how would one set up the automount/autounmount feature then?

i will actually figure out amd and automount myself but i have hundreds of other things cooking, and i thought maybe it should be posted here for others' benefit.

If i figure it out firat, i\ll post..

Master of Reality:
or if you wanna use a frontend to mount.
press alt+F2 then type usermount. It will have all the devices and let you mount/unmount any of the drives.

asdf:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
so folks, how would one set up the automount/autounmount feature then?

i will actually figure out amd and automount myself but i have hundreds of other things cooking, and i thought maybe it should be posted here for others' benefit.

If i figure it out firat, i\ll post..
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First, make sure you have it in your kernel.

You need to install the autofs package. Once that's done, edit your /etc/auto.master, which is a list of mount points (delimited by whitespace). For example, you could just put "/mnt" in there. Then, edit the /etc/auto.misc file. Here's an example of what could go in there:
floppy -fstype=auto :/dev/fd0

Then start the autofs service (restart if it's already running). Then, try to go into /mnt/floppy (ls /mnt/floppy, or whatever else you want to do in there) and it'll try to mount /dev/fd0 there.

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