On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:08:17AM -0700, shishir patil wrote: > > I've installed rh 8.0 and have been running it for about 3 weeks now. > But I've been having this irritating problem with my cdrw drive. I can > access it as a cd-rom drive, but > only for awhile. Sooner or later, after I remove a cd and place another > one in, it does not want to work anymore. The message says something > about a bad fs mount(I'm at work and this is my home machine, so I don't > have the specifics with me). I typcially shut down the machine and > reboot again. Most of the time this works (sometimes it > doesn't). The grub.conf is sets up hdc as an ide-scsi. the fstab file > looks fine. Any thoughts? > You ARE unmounting it before opening the drive, aren't you? In KDE (and I assume Gnome, too) you right-click on the cdrom icon on your desktop, choose "eject" and it will be unmounted and ejected. Or use the "umount" command if you're a command-line kind of guy. (note there is no "n" between the "u" and the "m".)
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