[plug] cdrom

[Len Bird]

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.
>
> 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

Hi Bill, I am not sure what your setup is, but did you try "eject"  it is a
small program which
does just that,

Cheers  Len Bird