On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:01:00 -0000, "Keith Watson" keith.watson@kewill.com said:
From: Anthony Anson Sent: 21 February 2005 10:45
However, the above isn't the point of this emu: when I came to remove the CD, pressing the 'open/close' button on the drive resulted in a sullen refusal to do anything. So, I tried the CD icon in Gnome, to be told that Debian had lost the driver - and the drawer still would not open. (Kept telling me that the drive was 'busy' or similar when I clicketty-clicked its icon in the Desktop. [Do we call it 'desktop'?] )
I had to close Debian down before the CD drive would operate again.
This happens to me every now and then. I find that opening a command shell and su'ing to root then issuing "eject /cdrom" (or whatever the CD mount point is) usually works.
Yes, or you may have to: # umount /path/to/cdrom (mount point or device)
If you have anything running with the CD-ROM mount point as its working directory (be it Nautilus, KSCD, terminal or whatever) then umount will report that the drive is busy and won't let you unmount it.
Cheers, Richard