eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 18:56 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> When I try to open the DVD burner tray with the command eject, I get
> the following problem:
> 
> $ eject
> eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'
> $
> 
> Any ideas?

Use "eject /dev/name-of-dvd-device". If you're not sure what the device
name is, an easy way to find out is by firing up k3b, which will look
for it (there are probably quicker ways but this works).

poc