I've noticed that every so often I'll have a problem getting into my /mnt/cdrom directory to see what's in my DVD drive (it's an HP 530i, by the way - great drive!) and it'll just hang there... or when I shutdown, I'll get some sort of message about a "confused drive". The drive is fine and works great under Windows. I think it may be a problem with mounting the drive properly (as I am a new Linux person, this idea has always been quite foreign to me).

If this happens, is there any command I can use to kill a process or something that'll help?

Any tips are appreciated,

Baltika

having the same proplems with my LG although I had it working for awile think that the answer is the one I found at criggie.dyndns.org/linux-dvd/ the site suggests that dvd drives need to use scsi emulation to work properly an tells how. I also almost forgot to mention you need to make a link to a dvd to get xine mplayer etc to read the drive like so ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd.

Do I need to do all of that? The drive works under Linux, it just hangs at shutdown.

By the way, here's exactly what it says in the shutdown sequence:

Unmounting file systems: hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr:
The drive appears confused (ireason=0x01)

Baltika

you could try hdparm use a terminal to find the manual page man hdparm. hdparm has opptions for changing parameters for drives in linux. type hdparm /dev/(name of drive ie. hdg) to find out the basic info about your drives settings. use flags for eg. hdparm -I /dev/hdg to find out more about drive settings. Killing from the run comand type Xkill and click on the running window you want to kill. how you do that with a drive i dont know. the best thing is to change drive parameters so that it unmounts normally. try changing your unmask irq settings. also check fstab settings man fstab will give you a good run down as to settings you might change fstab is in /etc you will need to be root to edit it.