I guess it's one of those things you take for granted, but when I mount my CD drive, I can't eject it afterwards. What do I need to do to get this convenient feature working?

You will need to unmount it, it's that simple.

Once the CD is not mounted... you can even eject it from the command line.

#eject

-or-

#eject /dev/hdx

(where x is your CDrom device if you have more then one)

Don't like it? You can always use submount. (I do, and love it.)

Urr you can even eject it if it is mounted right? I mean it will unmount for you first before ejecting.

To bring back the tray into the cdrom use

Why can't I just press the button???

Because you have a filesystem mounted.

FFS man just type umount /mnt/xxxxxx (where xxxxxx is the mount point).

ERR... No. (well yes, but still)

While eject can and will unmount the CDrom drive for you... it will only do so if you are root. (By default that is.)

Which leaves me at this point:
While the CDrom is mounted, you can not 'press the button'.

Why? because that would be silly. . . hehe

Can I do it so the CD unmounts itself when I press the button?

Sure you can, as long as you release the code under the GPL afterward I'll be happy.

hehe...

I will now point out part of my first post in this thread... because you clearly did not read it.

SUBMOUNT

lol....you're right, I didn't read it. I'll check it out and get back to you.

Well if you need any help with it... don't be afraid to ask.

Well, since you offered....

The module has been created, and it loads when I "modprobe subfs". Problem is, when I restart the computer, it's not automatically loaded (meaning, it's not in lsmod).

What am I missing?

add it to your "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" file... as a startup command.
(ex. #modprobe subfs)

Then just define your CDrom drive in "/etc/fstab" as a FS type of 'subfs'... well there's a bit more to it then that, but just fallow the online docs.

Ok, got the modules to load at boot, but now while trying to mount the cdrom, I get an "bad fstab" error. My fstab now reads "/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrw1 subfs fs=iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0".

What's wrong with that???

I think the cdrom entry in fstab should look something like this:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,users,ro 0 0
(of course with the spaces)
What is sr0 ?

bad_andy,
You have an extra space there.... fs=iso9660 is an option, and should be listed as one, not on it's own like you seem to have it.

should look like. . .
Also, there is no point in putting 'noauto' as an option... considering that you need to mount the subfs at boot to be able to use it.

Now, if all works out fine, all you have to do to mount a CD would be to enter '/mnt/cdrw1' via command line or any file browser. And to unmount, just press the button... so you kinda have the same effect of Windows when it comes to dealing with the CDrom.