Christopher Carlen wrote:

Hi:

I put a Panasonic SW-9573 DVD drive into my Suse 9.1 machine. It works fine, except KDE and/or Suse's Windows-like "let's try to think for the user" silliness is causing the following problem:

I put in a DVDROM to read, went to Konqueror's "Devices" clicked the DVD, and it mounted and showed the contents as expected.

Then the drive continued to spin forever, and the LED lights every few seconds. The OS just continues "checking" the media, it seems.

Then if I right click and select "eject" for the DVD, it ejects, then before I can get a chance to remove the disk, it sucks it back in a remounts it!

How to fix this?

Oh, I see Yast when it configured the new hardware put the DVD on subfs, and also put /dev/cdrom which also points to the DVD drive on subfs. So it was redundant, and I could click the CDROM or the DVD and access the DVD. Removing this from /etc/fstab and replacing the two lines with one that is like my cdrecorder which is manually mounted, fixes things. Good day! -- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle@sandia.gov