From: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lna@bigfoot.com
Subject: Re: I can eject a mounted CD
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:03:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010418230335.A17216@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14pqzO-0004bp-00@the-village.bc.nu> <XFMail.010418150323.pochini@shiny.it> <20010418150622.P490@suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010418150622.P490@suse.de>; from Jens Axboe on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:06:22PM +0200
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:06:22PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18 2001, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> > > vmware and one or two other apps I've also seen do this. WHen you unlock the
> > > cdrom door as root you can unlock it even if a file system is mounted
> >
> > Right, so I'll check what eject(1) does. It might eject the disk even if it
> > failed to unmount.
>
> It shouldn't be able to. But check and see what happens.
(1) There are many different programs all called eject(1).
I find at least four of them on this machine.
(2) I missed the start of the discussion; if this is a SCSI cdrom then
many eject programs will use raw SCSI commands and the kernel does not
try to parse raw SCSI commands so does not know that it is ejecting
a mounted cdrom.
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-18 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-13 22:12 I can eject a mounted CD Giuliano Pochini
[not found] ` <3AD78C81.51D8ED35@lvcm.com>
2001-04-16 19:16 ` Giuliano Pochini
2001-04-17 20:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-18 7:25 ` Giuliano Pochini
2001-04-18 9:00 ` Tim Peeler
2001-04-18 9:17 ` Giuliano Pochini
2001-04-18 13:24 ` Jeremy Jackson
2001-04-18 12:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-18 12:25 ` Jens Axboe
2001-04-18 13:03 ` Giuliano Pochini
2001-04-18 13:06 ` Jens Axboe
2001-04-18 21:03 ` Guest section DW [this message]
2001-04-18 21:36 ` Jens Axboe
2001-04-19 7:49 ` Giuliano Pochini
2001-04-18 8:42 ` Anthony D. Saxton
2001-04-19 21:36 ` Tomas Jura
2001-04-20 7:49 ` Giuliano Pochini
[not found] ` <kara.2760-0.987788475@kara.hadess.net>
2001-04-20 17:41 ` Bastien Nocera
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