> Thanks Gert for your thoughts! No, once the drive changed states to being > read-only, after running my wine apps, the only recourse I have to getting > it going again is to reboot. I cannot dismount the drive as Linux continues > to believe some process is using it, even though I have killed all the > PortableApps processes and stopped the wine server itself. It is interesting > to note that whenever I get into trouble with using the Passport drive, > even the Linux system itself cannot dismount the drive during its shutdown > process. Which is really surprising since dismounting all drives is one of > the last things that happens, after all other system and user processes have > been terminated! > Look at your dmesg output. To me this sounds like a HW failure or a kernel bug.\ John
