Craig,

I found a reference that says:

The iPod can be safely disconnected by unmounting it and removing the Serial 
Bus module.
$ umount /mnt/ipod
$ rmmod sbp2

I have not used my iPod on my Linux box yet though, so no guarantees.
Good Luck.

On 9/1/05, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
> 
> 2 issues (probably related)
> 
> I can't modprobe -r sbp2 - I get error, device is busy even though
> unmounted
> 
> Mounts as root but gtkpod wants to run as user and not root
> 
> I can't make heads or tails out of what I should do...is it an entry
> into
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy ?
> 
> what should it be?
> 
> fstab has entry for ipod to mount at /media/NAME_of_my_IPOD
> but that is for sda2 which now is skipped over and shows up as sdb2
> which I can mount (as root) and see files and stuff but I need a cleaner
> solution. I made an entry now in /etc/fstab (which apparently you're not
> supposed to do with fstab-sync) and I can deal with it as a user but it
> isn't pretty. Then of course, the only way I can deal with removing the
> connection is to 'eject /dev/sdb2' which is a cli thing...not user
> friendly yet.
> 
> anyone?
> 
> Craig
> 


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