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Re: [SLE] Unable to eject optical drive
  • From: Kevanf1 <kevanf1@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:12:03 +0000
  • Message-id: <7bca46c50603020212v18007931w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 02/03/06, Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If I once open /media/dvdram using a Konqueror window, I am unable to eject
> the DVD-drive so long as that Window is open -- this is somewhat
> understandable. (Another OS allows eject and closes the window displaying its
> content -- but I am not saying Linux should behave like that.)
>
> But even after I have closed the tab which was used to read the DVDRAM, until
> I have completely closed the window (which may contain lots of other tabs) I
> am not allowed to eject the DVDRAM drive. This is very inconvenient if I find
> I have inserted the wrong DVD to browse and I have to replace it with
> another.
>
> Do I report this bug (wishlist) at Novell or KDE?
>
> --
Could this be due to the drive being listed as 'sync' in the fstab
file? Perhaps SuSE is merely doing what it should because of this
attribute.
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