CDROM won't eject ;(

[anton]

Hello,

I was trying to do some burning , that didn't work , and now my cd-rom doesn't want to eject ;( ... what can be the problem ? ... and how would I go about ejecting cd-rom without rebooting?

thanks

[TaeShadow]

Is the drive mounted? If so, be sure that no programs are using it and that you are not in the directory that it is mounted in and type:

umount /dev/hdc

where hdc is probably the name of your CDROM device, but it could be something different.

[Gray_Race]

Ahh, try umount. I had this problem with MDK8 I installed it with the highest security settings and the only way I could eject the cdrom, was if I logged in as root. Switched to /mnt and then typed: umount cdrom

That poped out the disk. I'm not sure why I had to do it that way, but I did.

[tecknophreak]

I think, not sure that for cd burning you need SCSI emulation in the kernel.

eject cd - close every window that has info about the cdrom then see above posts

[anton]

TaeShadow : I'll try that ...


Gray_Race: did that, didn't work

tecknophreak : eject cd didn't work;(

[PimpHolic]

try rebooting, its not that big of a deal. and if u still cant do it get that little peice of metal (should have with your cdrom) and poke the little hole - but avoid that if possible