On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 14:02 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote: > It's neither hal nor the built in firewire controller, it happens with > the Belkin controller as well, even when hal is sent to hell before > plugging in the iPod. Is it really unmounted (from the kernel point of view) or did your umount fail? How does the iPod behave if connected through USB? HaJo PS: I have only once seen an iPod, and then connected to a WIN XP machine. Even then, it always said "do not disconnect". Could this issue be rather HW related? Maybe searching WIN-centric lists/forums might give a clue. I think I soon have to convince my wife to lend me her iPod Photo (which I gave to her for Christmas) to give this a try in FC3... -- HaJo Schatz <hajo@xxxxxxxx> http://www.HaJo.Net PGP-Key: http://www.hajo.net/hajonet/keys/pgpkey_hajo.txt