I've got an old firewire ipod. When I plug it in, It mounts perfectly as an external drive in Fedora Core 3. An icon apears on the desktop and it shows up as "/media/HAL_S_IPOD". When I unmount it using "Unmount Volume", the ipod does not say "ok to disconnect", as expected. To make that happen, I must 1) "Unmount Volume." or 'umount /media/HAL_S_IPOD' 2) 'sudo /sbin/rmmod sbp2' 3) Physically disconnect the ipod. 4) 'sudo /sbin/modprobe sbp2' If I leave off the last step, it does not recognize the drive when I plug it back in. The "Unmount Volume" command should *just work*. (I filed this bug against umount (util-linux-2.12a-16) becasue I did not know which component should be responsible for this; sorry.)
This is probably a kernel-level issue.
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