Re: CDROM busy

["Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose ex-pressnet com>]

If your CD is properly configured you should NOT be able to eject it without
first unmounting it!

Linux sends a "lock media" signal to the CD-ROM to prevent this from
happening.

If you are actually able to eject the media, something is wrong either with
your CD, or it's settings... (a few allow you to manually modify the
computer's ability to lock the media...)

-JMS

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonas Fornander <jonas netwood net>
To: RedHat Install <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Date: Thursday, October 01, 1998 4:46 PM
Subject: CDROM busy


>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
>
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