On 5/31/07, James Knott wrote:

James Hatridge wrote:

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Hi all,

Sometimes I have a CD/DVD go bad etc and it will not come out of the CD reader. As root I try the eject command and it will not work saying that the CD is busy. So far I've ended up rebooting to get the !"§$ CD out. Is there a way to force the eject command to work without rebooting?

Many drives have a small hole, where you can insert a piece of stiff wire, to force an eject.

They sell those stiff wires in a nice convenient bent over shape. You just unbend it and stick in the hole with a little bit of force. They can even multi-task as paperclips, but I rarely use them for that. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

HI all, On Thursday 31 May 2007 19:26, Fazer wrote:

you can also try

eject -m

-m -- do not unmount device even if it is mounted

I'll try this the next time it happens. To go futher into it, problems are normally when the CD will not read correctly and the system just keeps trying and trying to read the CD. I can kill the program, but somewhere the system is still trying to read, there does not seem to be a timeout. JIM BTW, thanks to everyone that helps on this list, you guys are great!

Dnia czwartek 31 maj 2007, G T Smith napisał:

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James Hatridge wrote:

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Hi all,

Sometimes I have a CD/DVD go bad etc and it will not come out of the CD reader. As root I try the eject command and it will not work saying that the CD is busy. So far I've ended up rebooting to get the !"§$ CD out. Is there a way to force the eject command to work without rebooting?

Thanks,

JIM

Not clear whether this is when burning or when reading, and which applications you are having a problem with.

If it is a data CD try manually unmounting before ejecting.

It this fails this most likely means the device is still in use by the application or a process of the application that you last accessed the CD/DVD with. Close the application if possible. If the application has crashed it is possible that the process accessing the device is still running in the background. Use ps to find the process and kill it. Cannot really give info on what to look for without further details.

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On Thursday 31 May 2007 18:17:00 G T Smith wrote:

James Hatridge wrote:

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Hi all,

Sometimes I have a CD/DVD go bad etc and it will not come out of the CD reader. As root I try the eject command and it will not work saying that the CD is busy. So far I've ended up rebooting to get the !"§$ CD out. Is there a way to force the eject command to work without rebooting?

Thanks,

JIM

Not clear whether this is when burning or when reading, and which applications you are having a problem with.

If it is a data CD try manually unmounting before ejecting.

Use ps to find the process and kill it. Cannot really give info on what to look for without further details.

And don't forget the handy lsof command, particularly combined with grepping where the CD has been mounted... Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org