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I have a Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard that seems to have issues with thumb drives.
Twice now, I've had the system lock up after trying to force an dismount of a thumb drive. The system tells me (for 2 hours) that the drive cannot be unmounted, and I finally chose to force it. After doing this, the system became unstable and would not respond (spinning beach-ball every time I tried to do anything) forcing me to do a hard-shutdown to recover.
Just now, I used a borrowed thumb drive (shhhh, don't tell) and the system mounted it multiple times. There were drive icons spread most of the way across my desktop. The drive does not have multiple partitions. Trying to get the system to unmount the drive was fruitless, as when one icon would go away, another would take it's place. I finally pulled the drive, causing the system to crash. I have the crash report minimized to my dock for when I get to a location with internet (probably back home) to send it.
With the first drive, I used the Disk Utility to verify the drive, and it seemed to fix problems both times. With the borrowed disk, all I did was check it under windows (the drive belongs to one of the companies techs, and we mostly use PC's) and it checked out fine.
At any rate, is there something I should check, or do in this case?
So far, other than a screw that likes to wiggle loose every once in a while, I've had no problems with it. This one bug has gotten me puzzled.
Eric the Grey
Twice now, I've had the system lock up after trying to force an dismount of a thumb drive. The system tells me (for 2 hours) that the drive cannot be unmounted, and I finally chose to force it. After doing this, the system became unstable and would not respond (spinning beach-ball every time I tried to do anything) forcing me to do a hard-shutdown to recover.
Just now, I used a borrowed thumb drive (shhhh, don't tell) and the system mounted it multiple times. There were drive icons spread most of the way across my desktop. The drive does not have multiple partitions. Trying to get the system to unmount the drive was fruitless, as when one icon would go away, another would take it's place. I finally pulled the drive, causing the system to crash. I have the crash report minimized to my dock for when I get to a location with internet (probably back home) to send it.
With the first drive, I used the Disk Utility to verify the drive, and it seemed to fix problems both times. With the borrowed disk, all I did was check it under windows (the drive belongs to one of the companies techs, and we mostly use PC's) and it checked out fine.
At any rate, is there something I should check, or do in this case?
So far, other than a screw that likes to wiggle loose every once in a while, I've had no problems with it. This one bug has gotten me puzzled.
Eric the Grey
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