Eject CDROM question

[Ben Beeson]

Eric and 'whenever,'

	I tried re-linking -- it didn't work.  

	Mount and umount work OK, but the eject command does not work, and
neither does the hardware button unless I insert the paperclip into the little
hole.    Funny though, it worked recently....

Ben 

On Tue, 22 May 2001, you wrote:
> That would be a good place to put a CDROM in an all SCSI system.  Does
> umount and then the eject button on the hardware work ok?
> -Eric Hattemer
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "whenever" <whatever at whoever.net>
> To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 7:23 AM
> Subject: [luau] Re: Eject CDROM question
> 
> 
> > Hmmm.. did you really have the CDROM on /dev/hda? Primary master? if so,
> then you are the first that I know :)  if not, just relink your /dev/cdrom
> to the correct device.
> >
> > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:43:20PM -1000, Ben Beeson wrote:
> > > Aloha all,
> > >
> > > For some reason, my system will not eject a cdrom.  It worked fine
> > > up until today, and I can't figure it out.  Perhaps someone here can
> help.
> > >
> > > Here is my /etc/fstab file:
> > >
> > > $ cat /etc/fstab
> > > /dev/sda2               /                       ext2    defaults
> 1 1
> > > /dev/sda1               /boot                   ext2    defaults
> 1 2
> > > /dev/sdb2               /home                   ext2    defaults
> 1 2
> > > /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660
> user,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto 0 0
> > > /dev/sdb1               /usr                    ext2    defaults
> 1 2
> > > /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,user
> 0 0
> > > none                    /proc                   proc    defaults
> 0 0
> > > none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620
> 0 0
> > > /dev/sdb3               swap                    swap    defaults
> 0 0
> > > /dev/sda3               swap                    swap    defaults
> 0 0
> > >
> > > Here is what the console sez when I try to eject a disk.
> > >
> > > $ eject -v -r cdrom
> > > eject: device name is `cdrom'
> > > eject: expanded name is `/mnt/cdrom'
> > > eject: `/mnt/cdrom' is not mounted
> > > eject: `/dev/cdrom' can be mounted at `/mnt/cdrom'
> > > eject: `/dev/cdrom' is not a multipartition device
> > > eject: unable to open `/dev/cdrom'
> > >
> > >
> > > If you try this as root, the console sez...
> > >
> > > # eject -v -r cdrom
> > > eject: device name is `cdrom'
> > > eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom'
> > > eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/hda'
> > > eject: `/dev/hda' is not mounted
> > > eject: `/dev/hda' is not a mount point
> > > eject: `/dev/hda' is a multipartition device
> > > eject: trying to eject `/dev/hda' using CD-ROM eject command
> > > eject: CD-ROM eject command failed
> > > eject: unable to eject, last error: Device or resource busy
> > > #
> > >
> > > And I know someone is going to ask this one... I am not in any directory
> > > related to the cdrom when I run these commands.  The kde icon for eject
> returns
> > > an error message that sez:
> > >
> > > "Could not unmount
> > > Error log:
> > >
> > > eject: unable to find or open device for '/dev/cdrom'
> > > The following processes have open files:
> > >
> > > CANCEL"
> > >
> > > File permissions for /dev/cdrom are:
> > >
> > > [ben at VALinux ben]$ ls -la /dev/cdrom
> > > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 May  5 20:49 /dev/cdrom ->
> /dev/hda
> > > [ben at VALinux ben]$
> > >
> > > and for /dev/hda I have:
> > > [ben at VALinux ben]$ ls -la /dev/hda
> > > brw-------    1 root     root       3,   0 May  5  1998 /dev/hda
> > > [ben at VALinux ben]$
> > >
> > > I have also tried using:
> > > [root at VALinux /root]# ls -la /dev/hda
> > > brw-------    1 root     disk       3,   0 May  5  1998 /dev/hda
> > > [root at VALinux /root]#
> > >
> > >
> > > I have tried changing the listing in /etc/fstab for the cdrom to:
> > > /dev/hda              /mnt/cdrom             iso9660
> > > user,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto 0 0
> > > and I have tried:
> > > /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660
> > > users,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto 0 0
> > >
> > > The button on the cdrom drive doesn't work either unless you use the
> paperclip
> > > option.    Any ideas????
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Ben
> > >
> > >
> > >
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