Re: CD-ROM Hell

["David Jones" <gnome@hawaii.rr.com>]

Sounds to me like a marginal CD drive.

On 1 Oct 02, at 20:26, Bryan Simmons wrote:

> The damn CD-ROM is still going.  I was able to
> successfully run umount /mnt/cdrom.  But, of course, I
> can't remount it because "the device is busy". I'd really
> like to find out why this happens and how to recover from
> it without a reboot.  It happens quite often with old or
> burned CDs, and it's a problem I've had with 4 different
> CD-ROMs on 4 different distros of Linux.
> 
> On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 02:38, Wladimir Foo wrote:
> > > I have two terrible CD-ROMs and a lot of shady CDs. 
> > > Sometimes I'll put one in the drive and Linux will
> > > fail to read it properly.  Sometimes this means I just
> > > can't read the disk.  Other times it means that the
> > > damn drive light stays on and the disk stays mounted
> > > and "busy" until I reboot the frickin PC.
> > 
> > As Ray mentioned earlier, it would be easier to come up
> > with a possible remedy if we knew what you were doing.
> > But, here's a something else that might help. Try using
> > lsof:
> > 
> > lsof | grep /mnt/cdrom .
> > 
> > lsof will output the program(s) that is(are) using
> > resources on /mnt/cdrom. Now simply quit (or kill those
> > programs) and you should be able to unmount the cdrom
> > drive.
> > 
> > -- 
> > http://www.linuxvoodoo.com     
> > perl -le
> > '$_="75>42833<33.=3?,13406577073890:;90833<330690<3!!";t
> > r[0-?][ YXOUIWLVETHDCNM];print'
> > 
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> Regards,
> 
> Bryan Simmons 
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