On Friday 14 February 2003 03:07 pm, FX Fraipont wrote:
I have a recurring problem with my pioneer dvd reader: when I use it , it is sometimes impossible to remove the CD or DVD.
Eject says : umount: /media/cdrom: device is busy eject: unmount of `/dev/sr0' failed even as root.
My only option is to reboot, which is not really satisfying ....
What can I do?
Thanks
FX ======================== FX, I am going to ask the dumb question here! After you mount the disc to read it or otherwise play with the files there, are you "unmounting" before trying to eject it?
Any device, floppy, cdrom, dvd, etc has to be unmounted before trying to eject it. You of course can eject a floppy without unmounting, but will incur the wrath of the floppy gods if you do! :o) If you have not unmounted a cdrom, the drawer will not open until you do an unmount or reboot, whichever comes first! So in conclusion: Mount then unmount then eject Two ways of doing this unmount procedure: 1. right click on the cdrom/dvd icon and select unmount 2. open console and type "umount /media/cdrom" Patrick --- KMail v1.5 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...