Cdrom keeps ejecting.

rentz · 08-18-2004, 06:31 AM

I am running suse 9.1 for several months now. All of a sudden my cdrom keeps opening. I will not stay closed. I can push it in and it will eject on its own. Push the eject button and it will close and eject again. Any ideas.

Thanks.

Lee

Oliv' · 08-18-2004, 08:01 AM

Hi,

Does it still open if you do: mount /cdrom ? If yes, that's an hardware problem... I know that on some laptop you have a tiny button which allow you to force cdrom to open...

Oliv'

rentz · 08-18-2004, 09:33 AM

Actually, the motor is what is opening and closing it. It will shut and stay shut like it would normally do except it is like it gets the signal to open and the motor opens it again.

michaelk · 08-18-2004, 10:46 AM

I suspect a sensor went bad or something is preventing the drive from closing completely. Is this a dual boot PC?

rentz · 08-18-2004, 02:15 PM

Linux only. Its actually the first "linux only" box that I have. All my other boxes are dual boot. I would have checked it in windows if it was. Thanks. Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Lee

Electro · 08-18-2004, 03:22 PM

Type "tail -f /var/log/messages" as su or root.

Disconnect the NIC cable from your computer. You could have a torjan in your computer.

While the computer is off you can spray compressed air on the lens in the CD-ROM drive if nothing else works.

Oliv' · 08-19-2004, 11:19 AM

Quote:

You could have a torjan in your computer.

You can check this with chkrootkit available at http://www.chkrootkit.org/

Oliv'

jwijesundra · 08-19-2004, 11:32 AM

i had the same problem and it was a hardware one. the cdrom was a creative infra something (the one with the fancy remote control) but that was a long time ago. Try doing this as soon as you boot ur machin go to the BIOS setup utility and leave it there. And see if the cdrom starts acting up even then 2 check if it's a h/w problem or not.

brindlegrey · 08-19-2004, 11:44 AM

I'm having the same exact problem on my 9.1 Personal Edition. I've got an older 24X (I think it's a Mitsumi) which had been working fine when the box was a Win98 box.

In my case, if I switch to run level 3, the CDrom behaves. Therefore, I was thinking something in KDE is giving me a problem. That may very well be, but Someone else just pointed me to this post...I'm going to try it next. May be a similar situation. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...30#post1106630

r0b0 · 08-20-2004, 03:38 AM

I think you might have a hardware problem. Try the drive in another computer or try another drive in this computer.

rentz · 08-20-2004, 08:35 AM

I can close the tray and shut down it will not reopen until it comes back up and starts KDE it will take about 40 seconds after KDE comes up for the tray to open... any other ideas? I really dont think it is a hardware problem.

Lee

Electro · 08-20-2004, 05:15 PM

Print your fstab file. You be using supermount and it is ejecting on accident.