problem ejecting cd out of my cddrive
 

Hi,
I have partitioned my laptop(Dell Inspiron 6000) with Fedora core 3 and Windows XP. I am not able to unmount/eject it from the drive when Iam in LINUX. This problem doesn't exist in my WINDOWS. Each time I mount a CD in LINUX, I need to reboot it, got to windows and then eject it.
Can someone tell me what is the problem?

Thanks,
Latha

are you using kde, gnome, xfce???

when you run these :
# eject /dev/cdrom
or
# eject /dev/hdb
or
# umount /dev/cdrom
.
.
.

What is the result?

Problem in ejecting the CD
 

First unmount the /mnt/cdrom directory by
umount /mnt/cdrom and then try to eject the cd.
Before unmounting the /mnt/cdrom you have to be present
outside that directory.

Otherwise right click on the cdrom icon and click eject.


Regards,
sharad.

Do run following command to eject the cdrom.

$ eject -r

Hi, Iam using kde.

when you right click on CDROM Icon , and choose unmount or eject , do you recieve an error says that unnable to unmount , device is bussy?

did you try
# eject /dev/cdrom
or
# eject /dev/hdb
or
# umount /dev/cdrom

?

post the result of :
# lsof | grep cdrom

Hi,
Yes, I had tried all these options. There seems to be some basic problem. For some reason, when the cd is mounted, the default directory which opens it happens to be :

/media/cdrecorder,

where it actually has to be

/mnt/cdrom

in which case, all the options u ppl had suggested would work. I don't know why the cd is being opened in /media/

Any installation problem ?

Latha