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Old 02-16-2006, 10:21 PM   #1
kvplatha
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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
 
Old 02-16-2006, 10:34 PM   #2
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are you using kde, gnome, xfce???
 
Old 02-16-2006, 10:37 PM   #3
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when you run these :
# eject /dev/cdrom
or
# eject /dev/hdb
or
# umount /dev/cdrom
.
.
.

What is the result?
 
Old 02-16-2006, 11:12 PM   #4
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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.


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sharad.
 
Old 02-16-2006, 11:16 PM   #5
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Do run following command to eject the cdrom.

$ eject -r
 
Old 02-17-2006, 05:30 AM   #6
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 320mb
are you using kde, gnome, xfce???

Hi, Iam using kde.
 
Old 02-17-2006, 10:03 AM   #7
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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
 
Old 02-17-2006, 11:21 PM   #8
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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

Quote:
Originally Posted by arsham
when you run these :
# eject /dev/cdrom
or
# eject /dev/hdb
or
# umount /dev/cdrom
.
.
.

What is the result?
 
  


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