Zip 250MB eject problem with qnx4.24

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Pressing the zip drive eject button works perfectly ok under win95/98
but not under qnx4.24. Sometimes I have to boot into win95 in order to
eject it! Is this a know problem?

Thanks for any help you can give

Brian Carter

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Do you “umount” the drive?
When I hit the eject button, I have to umount it either before or after to
get it to eject.
ms…

Brian Carter <bcarter@newtonhall.co.uk> wrote in message
news:31967ac7.0105240736.2332203a@posting.google.com…

Pressing the zip drive eject button works perfectly ok under win95/98
but not under qnx4.24. Sometimes I have to boot into win95 in order to
eject it! Is this a know problem?

Thanks for any help you can give

Brian Carter

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I am using 4.25 and Fatfsys to mount a DOS filesystem on ZIP drive. Under
this configuration I have found that you have to umount the filesystem
before the zip will eject.

Its a bit of a pain but it works.

  • Richard

“Brian Carter” <bcarter@newtonhall.co.uk> wrote in message
news:31967ac7.0105240736.2332203a@posting.google.com…

Pressing the zip drive eject button works perfectly ok under win95/98
but not under qnx4.24. Sometimes I have to boot into win95 in order to
eject it! Is this a know problem?

Thanks for any help you can give

Brian Carter

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Previously, Brown, Richard wrote in comp.os.qnx:

I am using 4.25 and Fatfsys to mount a DOS filesystem on ZIP drive. Under
this configuration I have found that you have to umount the filesystem
before the zip will eject.

The problem is that Dosfsys has locked the drive. You can use the scsi_util
command to unlock (and to eject).

scsi_util /dev/hd1 unlock
scsi_util /dev/hd1 lock
scsi_util /dev/hd1 eject

Cheers,
Camz.

–
Martin Zimmerman camz@passageway.com
Camz Software Enterprises www.passageway.com/camz/qnx/
QNX Programming & Consulting

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As with any Unix system, when a disk is in use, the system prevents the
cartridge from being ejected and corrupt the files in it. You need to
“umount” the mountpoint, AND “umount /dev/hdx”.

If you are using a SCSI zip drive, you can even eject the disk with the
“scsi_util” utility.

Nicolas LAUGEON

“Brian Carter” <bcarter@newtonhall.co.uk> a écrit dans le message news:
31967ac7.0105240736.2332203a@posting.google.com…

Pressing the zip drive eject button works perfectly ok under win95/98
but not under qnx4.24. Sometimes I have to boot into win95 in order to
eject it! Is this a know problem?

Thanks for any help you can give

Brian Carter