do a fuser on the cdrive look for the process that "holds" it and stop/kill it.
man fuser for details
regards
Steven
aka thing
-----Original Message-----
From: John Fleming [mailto:john@wa9als.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 7 December 2004 11:28 a.m.
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Can't eject CD
Pse help newbie - My CD/RW lite is on, and I can't eject the CD. I really
don't want to reboot just for this. My device is ATAPI:0,0,0. I've tried
cdrecord -eject to no avail. Any help please?
Debian Sarge