[plug] cdrom not ejecting

Daniel Foote freefoote at gmail.com
Sat Jul 1 10:35:48 WST 2006


> I have a dvd and a dvdr running as hdb(slave on primary) and hdc(master on
> secondary).
> I can eject hdc by entering umount -l /media/cdrom1 at the CLI and then
> choosing eject
> in Konqueror but running umount -l /media/cdrom0 the eject fails even though
> the CLI
> says hdb is not mounted according to mtab.
> The only way to get the cd/dvd back is to log out of KDE and back in.
> While this is only a small problem as I can use hdc if there is something I
> am missing that

Using the CLI enter the command "eject /dev/hdb" which will do the
same thing as KDE's eject. Use /dev/hdc for the other drive. If
nothing else, it might shed light onto why KDE can't do it.

The cooler part is when you run "eject -t" and the drive goes in...

Have fun...

Daniel Foote.



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