Re: FAM and CDROM Drives
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:05:16PM -0500, Jason Martens wrote:
>
> >>Hey all,
> >> I just ran into the annoying fam and cdrom issue. It seems like it
> >>was fixed in Fedora Core 1 back in December. Does anyone know how to
> >>fix this issue in Debian Testing?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Since I don't use Fedora (and I doubt many on this list do either) can you
> >tell us what "the annoying fam and cdrom issue" is, perhaps a description
> >or
> >a link to a page that talks about it? Googling on
> >annoying+fam+and+cdrom+issue didn't turn up anything interesting.
> >
> >
> If you google for "cdrom fam device busy", there are lots of hits.
> Basically, the problem is after inserting a cdrom into the cdrom drive,
> fam starts monitoring the drive, causing a "device busy" error when
> attempting to unmount/eject the cd. If fam is shutdown (/etc/init.d/fam
> stop), then it is possible to unmount the cdrom.
I'm running Libranet 2.8.1 (basically a mixture of sarge and sid) and
haven't noticed any conflict between fam and my cdroms.
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