> > is there a way to force an unmount of a bad floppy? It failed to > mount, and has gotten the idea that something is open. Is there > anythign short of rebooting, or can i even try to reboot? > Can it be that a bad cdrom has the same problem ? I have encountered situations when, after I had problems with a CD, I couldn't mount another one. The error was something like : cdrom is busy or mounted. Although the previous CD was unmounted.