Ejecting Unreadable CD
 

How to eject unreadable CD ?

because linux is always trying to read CD although the CD is bad.

That should unmount it. Make sure you're not in cdrom when typing in the command. Then type in eject or just press the eject button on your CD-Rom.

On the command line...

eject /mnt/cdrom

Modify the path if the cdrom is elsewhere (eg: on Ubuntu it's either /cdrom0 or /media/cdrom)

If that fails then try the same as root.

tried that. no respond. all i get is hdd bad media sector something error.

driveseek error.

hdd, is that your cdrom or are you saying its your hard disk drive because the driveseek error is for a hard drive.

I have had the {drive seek error} status on my hard drive which I am currently trying to fix:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=89409

--Abid Kazmi

Nope. /dev/hdd IS my dvd-rom drive. Yes, it's true. i got all that error message. b

bad media error.

driveseek error,.

and so on.

The only way to overcome it, is to force eject the drive via pin.

any other solution ?

Don't put that CD-Rom in there? :P Just kidding.

--Abid Kazmi