Linux oddity

[suetanvil]

I recently bought an 80Gb Neuros II.  I've been using it with my Linux system and have had no trouble putting my music collection onto the player.

There is, however, a little bit of wierdness.  It's probably nothing but it makes me nervous.

I always mount the Neuros filesystem manually with the mount command.  As soon as I do, the little "Do not connect" message appears on the display.  When I unmount the filesystem, the message often doesn't go away.  When I just unplug the device anyway (after making sure that it really is unmounted), everything seems to be okay, though.

Does this happen to anyone else?  Is this something I should worry about?

I'm using Fedora Core 2 and positron, by the way.

[darren]

Are you using the sync mount option? This causes the writes to be done synchronously which means your transfer program won't complete until the writes to the Neuros are complete.

Here's my fstab entry:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/neuros vfat noauto,noatime,umask=022,user,exec,sync,shortname=winnt 0 0

[suetanvil]

I'm not using the sync option.  However, I don't see how that could be a problem.  Not only has the transfer completed but I've unmounted the filesystem as well.  That should guarantee that everything has been transfered.

[duke Neuros]

Have you done a Nand format recently?

With the power cord and USB unattached and the unit powered down, press and hold down the 1 and 5 preset buttons and the Play buttons at the same time. You should boot into Safe Mode.

Using the large button select Format NAND and right-click. Select Yes and right click to erase all the data on the disk. Formatting the NAND (the flash chip on the player) may take longer depending on which firmware version you currently have, and the back light may also blink. When finished, select Exit and return to the main menu.