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I am encountering a strange behaviour with my newly installed Mandrake 8.1.
After inserting and accessing a CD to the CD drive I cannot change it: there is no way to open the CD drive... pressing the drive's eject button does not respond, and trying to eject it using any other application fails as well.
My computer is an HP XE3 laptop.
This is the first time I am using Linux so perhaps I do not know of commands or procedures that should precede such attempts?
umount seems to operate correctly, but then, the resutl of typing eject is:
unable to find or open device for /dev/cdrom
When I mount it again, it works perfectly well. However, ejecting either through a command or using the drive's physical eject button simply do not work.
eject will default to using /dev/cdrom if it's not given anything else. i've no idea why your button won't work. if the drive is happily unmounted then linux shouldn't prevent it...
eject /dev/hdc
if your cdrom is secondary master for example.
it's handy to create that symlink anyway tho, a number of programs will use that as a default...
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
will create the link, assuming that the drive IS hdc....
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