Loading a CD

Antony2782 · 06-27-2006, 08:43 PM

I have a CD drive which will not open except when I stick a paperclip in the little hole. It does not respond to the button, and when I try to eject it from the desktop, I get the error "Eject dev/hdc failed!" I don't think I've done anything to damage the hardware.

The drive is a Slimtype DVDRW SOSW-852S. I have SuSE Linux 9.3.
Antony

DrOzz · 06-27-2006, 08:48 PM

have you tried umount /dev/hdc or as root if you type "eject" in the command line does it still say it fails ? If you reboot your computer and you get at the post screen does it still no eject if you hit the button ?

Antony2782 · 06-28-2006, 08:33 AM

umount /dev/hdc succeeds in unmounting the drive. I never had any problem on that end. The eject command does not work. I'm told it's an invalid argument, and then the CD gets remounted.

binary_y2k2 · 06-28-2006, 09:26 AM

sometimes that error happens to me, I can ususlly get it to eject by adding the -s option to eject, even though my drive isn't SCSI.