Thanks, I did what you said and it worked. However I put that cd I just burned back in to read it, and the problem happened again. It seems to be something about that cd. I don't know if that makes any sense, but it seems to freeze the device up. SW On Friday 17 August 2001 15:45, you wrote: > Hi, looking at the first message was the soft link listed a typo when you > show "....scd0 scdrom"? it should have been "...cdrom". I did not have to > do this with my install, but that is neither here nor there. Since you had > it going it made the link so what I would do is make a new desktop short cut. Go to an empty place on the desktop with the pointer and right click. > On the pop up select "make new cdrom device" or what ever it says. It will > pop up a new box change the title to your choice, like "CDRW" click on > execute and then the selection arrow and select the /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom > line (sorry I'm not at my linux computer so that may be a paraphrase). > Selecting that will add the link to the desk top. then click on the desktop > icon symbol and it will start loading application icons, click on the arrow > you want device icons, select the cd burner mount icon click on it and then > click ok and you should have a new desktop icon that actually works. Need > any help with this come on back to the list, HTH Dennis M. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Scott > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] cdrom device busy > > > After sending the last message I sutdown the system. It took several tries > to log out and then on shutdown it stopped at an error message that said > "Kernel Panic" and "Supermount Panic". I finally shut off the power and > started back up again. > SW > > On Friday 17 August 2001 15:07, you wrote: > > I just unstalled a cd rewriter (running 8.0) and was just burning a cd > > for the first time. After I did this I put in a cd and tried to read the > > contents by clicking on the desktop shortcut. The window never opened. > > (I have already done: "cd /dev && rm cdrom && ln -s scd0 scdrom" and the > > shortcut was working fine.) I rebooted and noticed a line saying the > > device was busy as it shut down. After reboot it worked OK one time and > > then same as before. If try to unmount : "umount /mnt/cdrom > > umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is > > busy". Does anyone know what's up? > > Thanks, > > SW > > ---------------------------------------- > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Description: > ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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