can't eject dvd rom
 

Hello everybody

I have a problem
I can't eject my cdrom, if i try it I receive an error

cdrecord: input/output error

I also tried this: dmesg | grep hd[a-z]

And then i receive this error:

hdd: dvd drive
...
hdd: irq timeout: status 0xd0 (busy)

Does somebody have a solution?

thank you

Boda

Did you unmount it before you tried to eject it? If it really is hdd then the command would be

unmount /dev/hdd

Then try to eject it.

leave the DVD's directory before u eject it.


siyeclover

Yes, i tried to unmount it and then there's a message shown that it already is unmounted. I will now try to reboot the machine, maybe this solves the case.

Thank you

Greetzz boda

Make a script to unmount and eject the dvd drive for you.

==========start cutting below this line===========
#!/bin/bash
umount /dev/hdd
eject /dev/hdd
==========end cutting above this line============

save this script as /bin/ejectdvd or something along those lines

Make the script executeable with a:
chmod 755 /bin/ejectdvd

If you don't want to save it in the /bin directory then make a scripts subfolder under your home directory and add that folder to your path.

Alternatively...
a simple
umount /dev/hdd && eject

would probably work the && will execute the second command as long as the first command executes successfully.