CD drive difficulty

[William Witt]

On 12/04/2009 10:06 PM, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> I'm just finishing installing F12 XFCE and encountered a problem
> with the CD drive: When I push the eject button, the tray is first
> extended fully outward and then is immediately retracted. I'm
> reasonably certain that this is not a hardware problem, but rather
> is some sort of misconfiguration issue.
>
> Some background: The CD/DVD drive was installed a few weeks ago as a
> replacement for one that would no longer burn DVDs; it seems to be in
> good shape. This is a multiboot installation, and the drive performs
> properly on the other partitions, including one running F12 KDE and
> another with F11 XFCE.
>
> Any help that you can offer will be appreciated.
>
> -- cmg
>

I haven't experienced this personally, but I did se a thread on it a 
while back on FedoraForum:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=235313&highlight=cd+drive+eject

Will