thomas.ferry wrote:
Chris Jones wrote:I just did test with a boot CD for knoppix and it was fine now i know it isnt the drive itself.On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:54:08PM EDT, thomas.ferry wrote: [..]It looks like hal doesnt mount my dvd drive. I tried to rename the file you mentioned and it doesnt exist. I know the drive is good cause I dont use it that often heh.Well, no.. if you don't use it that often, you don't get to know much about it.. hence you're not likely to know whether it is good or not.. :-) CJ
Is it really locking up? Are you sure? Or is it just not ejecting? There could be some process/program using the drive. When you press the button, or send an eject command to the drive some way, the process doesn't let it go.
Maybe GNOME or KDE isn't playing nice. Are you using a Desktop? Try booting (without a disc in the drive) into single-user mode, and then testing the drive.
Mark Allums