Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

[Dave Howorth <dhoworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 11:37 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:
> On 28/10/05, Dave Howorth <dhoworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 17:41 -0400, James Wright wrote:
> > > >>>On Wednesday 26 October 2005 12:01, Dave Howorth wrote:
> > > >>>>... So what I do is su to root and eject it. I've been thinking about
> > > >>>>writing a suid shell script to do that, unless somebody else comes with
> > > >>>>a better suggestion.
> >
> > > You don't need to do all of this, just make sure any disc activity has
> > > finished and unplug the device.
> >
> > I think you missed something I wrote earlier:
> >
> > > My disk is a camera (well, the disk is an SD card in a camera)
> > > and this doesn't work because I want to turn the camera off before
> > > unplugging it. And it won't turn off until it's unmounted ...

> Perhaps I'm missing something here but what's wrong with simply
> unplugging the camera? 

Because the manufacturer's instructions say to turn off the camera
before plugging/unplugging and I don't want to void my warranty.

>  Or, get hold of one the now very cheap USB
> card readers.  That's why I 'have' to use as my camera is not
> supported under any distro.  It does have the added bonus of not
> wasting the cameras battery.

Because my camera is supported :) I checked before I bought. Why should
I have to fiddle around taking the card out?

Cheers, Dave