Re: CDROM busy

[Victoria Stanfield <vicki stanfield net>]

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On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, John Zhou wrote:

::I think you should try to do this in some directory other than at the
::mount point /mnt/cdrom.
::
::John
::
::
::On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Jonas Fornander wrote:
::
::> Being used to Windows, I often leave the CD in the CDROM and/or change the
::> CD without umounting the drive first. So consequently when I try to read the
::> CDROM drive nothing shows up and I'm not able to neither umount or mount it.
::> 
::> How do I "reset" the mounting of the CDROM drive?
::> 
::> When I do "mount /mnt/cdrom" the error is:
::> mount: /dev/cdrom already mounted or /mnt/cdrom busy

My system won't let me open the cd tray if the cd is mounted; are you
saying yours does?  If so and the above suggestion doesn't do it, try
'umount /mnt/cdrom' before you remount it with the 'mount /mnt/cdrom'
command.

Have a good day!
- -Vicki
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