From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wladimir Foo Subject: Re: CD-ROM Hell Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 02:38:22 -0400 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200210010238.22882.wfoo@linuxvoodoo.com> References: <1033443333.7225.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: wfoo@linuxvoodoo.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1033443333.7225.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Bryan Simmons , linux-newbie > 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!!";tr[0-?][ YXOUIWLVETHDCNM];print' - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs