Re: CD-ROM problems
One thought - have you got a cd player on your desktop? Some of them
grab the eject function. If so you have to use the cd players eject
function. Just a thought...
Cheers
Dave
On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 15:42 +0000, Nathan & Dena Blair wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am experiencing problems with my CD-ROM drive under Linux. The drive
> is a Memorex CD-322E (aka Dysan) IDE that is on /dev/hdc.
>
> The problem is I can't eject the drive once it's been mounted. I can
> supposedly umount it ok (no error messages show up or anything), but if
> I press the eject button, nothing happens. If I try to open it using
> the 'eject' command, here is what I get:
> eject: CDROMEJECT ioctl failed for `/dev/hdc': Input/output error
>
> I am able to re-mount the drive after umounting it and read from it.
>
> dmesg contains the following lines that apply to my CD drives:
> hdc: CD-ROM 32X/AKU, ATAPI CDROM drive
>
> [ few lines deleted ]
>
> hdc: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.52
> hdd: ATAPI 8X CD-ROM DVD-RAM CD-R drive, 512kB Cache
>
> [ few lines deleted ]
>
> ATAPI device hdc:
> Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
> Medium removal prevented -- (asc=0x53, ascq=0x02)
> The failed "Start Stop Unit" packet command was:
> "1b 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
>
>
> I can mount/umount/eject /dev/hdd with no problems. It's a mitsumi
> 8x/2x recorder.
>
> I am running a mostly-stock hamm system with kernel 2.2.0. I also had
> this problem with the stock hamm kernel (2.0.34 (?)). The drivers are
> being loaded as modules.
>
> I don't really have any problems with it in Windows other than the fact
> I can't do any CDDA with it.
>
> Any ideas? Please let me know if you need more details.
>
> Thanks!
> Nate
>
>
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