Error Unmounting CD Drive

Steven P. Ulrick ulrick2 at faith4miracle.org
Tue Jan 20 04:18:29 UTC 2004


On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:18:04 +1300
"Tristan Brynildsen" <tristanb at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:

> I am a linux newbie and have a CDRW/DVD combo drive and when I try to
> unmount a CD after using an RPM or other file from it (excluding
> copying a file to hard drive) says ___error: cannot unmount. Drive in
> use___ even though there is no other processes running or anything
> using the drive, how can I stop this so that I can unmount it. Is
> there anyway to force an unmount? Thanks!
>  
> Tristan Brynildsen
> tristanb at slingshot.co.nz
> tristanb2004 at msn.com

Hello, Everyone :)
I have been using various versions of Red Hat, and now, Fedora Core, for
a few years now, and I will be looking forward to the answer to this
problem as well, as I have seen it on my system.  In my case, I am using
an Iomega 52x24x52x External USB2 CDRW drive.

Steven P. Ulrick





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