[plug] cdrom not ejecting

conon troll at arach.net.au
Sat Jul 1 11:00:00 WST 2006


On Saturday 01 July 2006 10:56, Innis Cunningham wrote:
> 
>   "Daniel Foote"writes
> >
> >>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.
> 
> using eject it says the device is busy but using umount says the
> device is not mounted.
> 
What version of KDE are you using ?
I had a similar problem a while ago with a cdrom - but an upgrade removed the problem
seems that kde was checking the device node and not releasing it.

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