Re: CD-drive blocked after successless mounting

[mike <mikpolniak@adelphia.net>]

	Try /usr/bin/eject /cdrom or /dev/hd?.

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:47:23 +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder said:

> Hello, debian-users!
>  
>  I have two CD-drives: one for regular use and one for additional
>  writing.
>  
>  I have been experiencing problems, when I tried to read burned CDs
>  in the regular drive - well, that wouldn't matter much to me, but I
>  wanted to try it out anyway. Here is what happened:
>  
>      $ mount /cdrom
>      [... lots of error messages ...]
>      mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was
>             specified
>  
>  So I pressed the eject key but it was blocked.
>  I typed 'umount /cdrom' but it told me that cdrom was not mounted.
>  So I was left with the CD stuck in the "wrong" drive, which was neither
>  mounted nor unmounted...
>  
>  Of course a reboot would always help me out, but is there another way
>  to unlock a CD-drive?
>  
>  If anyone knows one, please let me know.
>  
>  Thanks in advance,
>  Andreas.
>  
>  
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