[plug] cdrom

[Beau Kuiper]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, BillK wrote:

> Hi,
> 	I am having problems dismounting the cdrom on my Mandrake system.
> 
> What happened was:
> 1) mounted cdrom (Mandrake supermount is disabled)
> 2) mounted remotely from another mandrake machine - its nfs exported.
> 3) Installed some packages from it
> 4) dismounted OK
> 5) refused to dismount from server (root) saying busy
> 6) umount -f also failed.
> 

Hmmm, it is NFS i guess, are you using the kernel version. If you are then
you should probably try the user-space version. Not as up to date, but
safer, and you can kill it to get your cd's out in worse case senario

For the moment, I havn't really liked the linux kernel NFS server.

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au


> In frustration I manually ejected the disk to get it out.
> This has happened whenever I have remotely mounted the cdrom.  The only
> cure I have been able to find so far is reboot - is there a better way
> of forcing a dismount?  As far as I can tell nothing is mounted, no
> loopback involved.  Even logging out of all screens etc fails to restore
> it.  I suspect its NFS, but how to reset it?
> 
> BillK
> 
>