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Mystic
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 Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 7:07 pm Post subject: Gimmie Back My CD!!! |
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I'm using a Cendyne CD-RW drive, it mounts just fine. I made a link to the device to my desktop for easy access. I'll place a CD in the drive, it mounts, reads the CD and everything seems fine. Until I want to take the CD out. Ejecting always fails, and If I try to unmount it, it tells me that its busy, when its not...cuz I'm no longer using it, closed the window to it. (In this example here I'm using a CD that I burned with some files on it).
Any ideas if there is anything I can change to make this work right?
Thanks you very much.
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Kesereti
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 7:12 pm Post subject: Re: Gimmie Back My CD!!! |
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| Mystic wrote: | I'm using a Cendyne CD-RW drive, it mounts just fine. I made a link to the device to my desktop for easy access. I'll place a CD in the drive, it mounts, reads the CD and everything seems fine. Until I want to take the CD out. Ejecting always fails, and If I try to unmount it, it tells me that its busy, when its not...cuz I'm no longer using it, closed the window to it. (In this example here I'm using a CD that I burned with some files on it).
Any ideas if there is anything I can change to make this work right?
Thanks you very much. |
Sometimes processes can still be using the CD, even when you think you've gotten rid of them all. Emerge 'lsof', and then try the following command (I believe you have to be root, but not sure:
Of course, replace /dev/cdrom with whatever your CDROM device is...lsof shows what processes are keeping that device open; if there's anything listed, then you know what's keeping your CD from ejecting ^_^ |
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BitJam
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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Here is what you need to do to find out what program is keeping you cdrom busy (I suspect kde) : | Code: | # emerge lsof
# man lsof
# lsof /mnt/cdrom |
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blueworm
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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This happens to me all the time.
Just close the terminal. open another one, and unmount... |
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Kesereti
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| blueworm wrote: | This happens to me all the time.
Just close the terminal. open another one, and unmount... |
That doesn't always do it...fam, for example, which both Gnome and KDE use, sometimes keeps a device open until it times out, which can take a while at times... |
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Mystic
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the help guys!
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