USB (Handy Drive) problem!!!
I have KINGSTON USB (handy Drive) which is working fine under Windows XP and Red Hat Linux 9 (Same laptop, with dual boot). Problem is that, under Windows XP, when I click ‘Safely remove..’ then light(physical LED) of USB drive become off, insuring that everything is going fine and drive is off.
But under Red Hat Linux 9, when I give command, Code:
umount /dev/sda1 |
the light will be on because the kernal still sees the device.
as long as you did umount the partition isn't active and no damage to data will occur. |
shouldn't your command be
umount /mnt/usbdrive (or where ever you are mounting it to?) |
I was actually going to post a similar post. However when I umount the device and remove it and then try to get it back up it fails. The light will not come back on until I reboot the system. I would imagine there is a way to shutdown the device for safe removal (aka turning the light off). I have only tried this once but resetting the system everytime I remove it us unnacceptable. Has anybody done this and been able to remount the device later? By the way I am using RH 9.
- Zych |
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