[X4U] MS-DOS disk support / unmount

[Stroller]

On Nov 16, 2004, at 2:57 pm, thomas fritscher wrote:
> I just noticed MS-DOS disk support has been (kind of) removed from 
> OS-X. I
> have a MS-DOS formatted firewire drive and at first I thought i'd 
> wouldn't
> mount at all. Then I tried to reformat it using disk utility but 
> noticed
> that it can't format MS-DOS anymore

Panther has never been able to format in MS's FAT filesystem - I've had 
a firewire drive for about 6 or 8 months, and remember having to format 
it on my Winders machine (I could have HFS formatted it under Panther, 
of course, but then it wouldn't have been readable on Winders boxes).

> ..It turned out that the drive did
> actually mount (i found it in /Volumes) and I could use it, but don't 
> know
> how to unmount it ... So the actual question is, how do I unmount a 
> drive
> that doesn't show up in the finder?

I think your problem is unrelated to the DOS filesystem in this drive; 
certainly, my DOS-formatted firewire drive works fine here on 10.3.6. 
It seems to me that your Mac simply isn't showing the firewire drive on 
the desktop (or in the sidebar?) when it's mounted - I have sometimes 
found a reboot resolves this. Also, have you checked your Finder 
preferences haven't changed recently..? Fiddling with those may cause 
it to reappear.

Stroller.