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Re: umount - URGENT



	Subject: Re: umount - URGENT
	Date: Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:58:50PM -0500

In reply to:Carl Fink

Quoting Carl Fink(carlf@panix.com):
>| On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:52:15PM -0500, Michael Stenner wrote:
>| > while it's a good habit to demand successful umounts before removing
>| > media, remember that it IS a cdROM after all.  You're certainly not
>| > going to damage it by just pushing the button and taking the thing
>| > out.  Sure the os will complain, but you'll have the disk in your
>| > hand.
>| 
>| I've hever been able to open a CD drive without unmounting the volume -- the
>| drawer won't open.

Try a paper clip, strightened out, and inserted into the little hole
in the front of the CDROM drive.  Works on the 3 I have.

HTH
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