On Thursday 27 November 2003 22:30, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:06:26PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > On Thursday 27 November 2003 21:42, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > > > On Thursday 27 November 2003 20:48, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > > > > Most of those devices have "write protect" latch/switch on them, > > > > > make sure it's off.. > > > > > > > > that was the first thing I checked ;-) > > > > > > Copy a huge file on it and the umount. At least one of them > > > should take long > > > > 1 - copied a 100 Mega file (it took over 2 minutes) > > 2 - waited for the led to stop flickering > > 3 - checked from command line AND from GUI - the file was there > > 4 - waited another 2 minutes > > 5 - umount > > 6 - mount > > 7 - the 100 mega file is gone :-( > > > > this is crazy > > Indeed. > What does dmesg say?
when I mount I get the following in dmesg: MSDOS FS: IO charset utf8 and this is in syslog: Nov 27 23:12:54 shlomo1 kernel: MSDOS FS: IO charset utf8 copying a file or umount don't show anything in dmesg or syslog -- Shlomo Solomon http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Sent by KMail (KDE 3.1) on LINUX Mandrake 9.1 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
