RE: Floppy Drive

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On 21-Mar-2001 Jeanne L Smith opined:
> I installed RH7 (had 6.2 before).  I inserted a partition magic rescue
> disk and can't remove it from the drive now (this was the first disk I
> inserted right after installing RH7).  When I try to umount it says
> that it is not mounted.  When I try to mount it I get an error message
> saying that I need to specify the file type.  I have tried every file
> type that I can find listed in my books and cannot get it to mount. 
> The CD/DVD drive works fine.  So far everything else looks fine.  Does
> anyone know what is ca
> using this?

Not sure I understand. This is the floppy (subject) and not a cd drive
(later comment)?

If it's a cd, 'eject /dev/cdrom' or 'eject /mnt/cdrom' or simply try
'eject /dev/<whatever_the_device_is>' should work.

If it's a floppy, is the eject button stuck? That should work irrespective
of disk's mounted state. The eject button not working would indicate a
bad drive, stuck label or something else hard being broken. Linux
couldn't cause or solve such a problem.

If it's something else, please clarify.

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