Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 06:17 am, eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit On Tuesday 01 June 2004 21:35, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I bought and installed a Sony DVD burner. I haven't tried burning anything yet but I did run into a problem. After I've accessed a CD or DVD I can't get it to eject. When I push the eject button, nothing happens. Any idea what is causing this problem? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Probably you will have to unmount it first. In a terminal,cd /etc/mnt, su to root, type umount cdrom or whatever it is named in your /etc/fstab. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Thanks. I'll try that. Eric I discovered, by running top, that it is fam holding onto the device, as CDROM in my experience, and when I kill that the CD is permitted to eject. HTH Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. .Ugo Betti ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit
On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 07:37, eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: James Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit On Tuesday 01 Jun 2004 20:58, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Just a guess - automount (or equivlent) has the CD or DVD mounted, and the drive locked. Try using the eject command and see if that works. If you have any programs that are accessing the drive, it will not work. If not, try right clicking the Desktop Icon, and selecting Unmount. Red Hat was a beggar for doing that to me.. JRH When I tried that it gave me an error message saying that only root could unmount the DVD. I didn't have this problem with my old DVD. Any ideas on how I can set up my computer so I don't have to unmount it manually? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Close any instance of Konqueror, then you should be able to use the eject button. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] dvd drive won't exit
Hi, Yesterday I bought and installed a Sony DVD burner. I haven't tried burning anything yet but I did run into a problem. After I've accessed a CD or DVD I can't get it to eject. When I push the eject button, nothing happens. Any idea what is causing this problem? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit
- Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit On Tuesday 01 June 2004 21:35, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I bought and installed a Sony DVD burner. I haven't tried burning anything yet but I did run into a problem. After I've accessed a CD or DVD I can't get it to eject. When I push the eject button, nothing happens. Any idea what is causing this problem? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Probably you will have to unmount it first. In a terminal,cd /etc/mnt, su to root, type umount cdrom or whatever it is named in your /etc/fstab. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Thanks. I'll try that. Eric -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * http://www.haulrich.net * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit
eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I bought and installed a Sony DVD burner. I haven't tried burning anything yet but I did run into a problem. After I've accessed a CD or DVD I can't get it to eject. When I push the eject button, nothing happens. Any idea what is causing this problem? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a guess - automount (or equivlent) has the CD or DVD mounted, and the drive locked. Try using the eject command and see if that works. If you have any programs that are accessing the drive, it will not work. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 21:35, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I bought and installed a Sony DVD burner. I haven't tried burning anything yet but I did run into a problem. After I've accessed a CD or DVD I can't get it to eject. When I push the eject button, nothing happens. Any idea what is causing this problem? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Probably you will have to unmount it first. In a terminal,cd /etc/mnt, su to root, type umount cdrom or whatever it is named in your /etc/fstab. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * http://www.haulrich.net * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit
On Tuesday 01 Jun 2004 20:58, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Just a guess - automount (or equivlent) has the CD or DVD mounted, and the drive locked. Try using the eject command and see if that works. If you have any programs that are accessing the drive, it will not work. If not, try right clicking the Desktop Icon, and selecting Unmount. Red Hat was a beggar for doing that to me.. JRH -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10CE Microsoft: Which Virus Would You Like to Catch Today? Registered Linux User #340061 21:52:53 up 10:45, 0 users, load average: 0.78, 1.00, 1.13 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit
- Original Message - From: James Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit On Tuesday 01 Jun 2004 20:58, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Just a guess - automount (or equivlent) has the CD or DVD mounted, and the drive locked. Try using the eject command and see if that works. If you have any programs that are accessing the drive, it will not work. If not, try right clicking the Desktop Icon, and selecting Unmount. Red Hat was a beggar for doing that to me.. JRH When I tried that it gave me an error message saying that only root could unmount the DVD. I didn't have this problem with my old DVD. Any ideas on how I can set up my computer so I don't have to unmount it manually? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10CE Microsoft: Which Virus Would You Like to Catch Today? Registered Linux User #340061 21:52:53 up 10:45, 0 users, load average: 0.78, 1.00, 1.13 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 05:37 pm, eric jackson wrote: When I tried that it gave me an error message saying that only root could unmount the DVD. I didn't have this problem with my old DVD. Any ideas on how I can set up my computer so I don't have to unmount it manually? Once you have accessed the drive in a konsole window or through konqueror, you must close all of those windows before you can unmount the drive. If you still have the window open, even if you are no longer in the mount point, the drive will remain mounted and you will be unable to remove the disk. Simply close all windows that you used to access the drive and then you should be able to use the cd button to open the drive. Also, if you are still using magicdev, you may want to uninstall it and switch over to supermount for the drive. Magicdev causes some issues and is considered to still be unstable. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
