From: Wladimir Foo <wfoo@linuxvoodoo.com>
To: Bryan Simmons <bsimmo1@gl.umbc.edu>,
linux-newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Hell
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 02:38:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210010238.22882.wfoo@linuxvoodoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1033443333.7225.50.camel@localhost.localdomain>
> 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.
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YXOUIWLVETHDCNM];print'
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-01 6:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-01 3:35 CD-ROM Hell Bryan Simmons
2002-10-01 4:20 ` James Miller
2002-10-01 21:24 ` Jude DaShiell
2002-10-01 5:13 ` Ray Olszewski
2002-10-02 21:35 ` Ralph Gesler
2002-10-01 6:38 ` Wladimir Foo [this message]
2002-10-02 0:26 ` Bryan Simmons
2002-10-02 2:30 ` Chuck Gelm
2002-10-02 4:01 ` Ray Olszewski
2002-10-02 4:16 ` David Jones
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-03 11:09 Calin Szonyi
2002-10-03 17:38 ` Ralph Gesler
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