Re: CD won't eject in 2.6.10
On 25 Jan 2005, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 12:59 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > Unlike some posters, I don't have problems writing CDs in 2.6.10 (as
> > root) but I do have an eject problem. Once I mount the disk (in a
> > read-only drive) I can no longer open the drawer manually after
>
> With the button? How do you open the tray, then? Reboot? Or
> use eject(1)?
>
Yes, with the button. I also tried inserting a probe into the emergency
release but that didn;t work either; I had to reboot.
I didn't have the eject app. installed but I do now, and it does seem to
work so far, rather surprisingly.
> > umounting it.
> >
> > I thought it was a faulty drive and replaced it but the same thing
> > happened. I therefore reverted to kernel 2.6.9 and the problem went
> > away. Anyone else seeing this? I didn't find it on Google.
>
> $ uname -r
> 2.6.10n
> $ mount /media/cdrom
> $ umount /media/cdrom
> $ eject
> $
>
> What *exact* command (with switchs, if any) fails?
See above.
Anthony
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