Re: Can't eject CD

[Michael Spang <mike@midgard.no-ip.org>]

Gerard Ceraso wrote:
> Steven Jones wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> >  
> Make sure that you are not in the cdrom directory.

CD-ROM drives can be a terrible pain. I find the 'eject' command almost 
never fails. However it is likely this does the same thing as 'cdrecord 
-eject.' You could of course use a paperclip, though it might not be a 
good idea while the drive is powered. Are any processes locking the 
drive? Is it mounted? 'lsof /cdrom' may be of some help in finding out 
why the drive is locked.

Michael Spang