From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261602AbVGZDCm (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:02:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261603AbVGZDCm (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:02:42 -0400 Received: from linuxwireless.org.ve.carpathiahost.net ([66.117.45.234]:39341 "EHLO linuxwireless.org.ve.carpathiahost.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261602AbVGZDCl (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:02:41 -0400 Message-ID: <42E599C5.5090705@linuxwireless.org> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:02:45 -0500 From: Alejandro Bonilla User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Debian/1.7.8-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Puneet Vyas CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: PROBLEM:Machine hangs on pulling out USB cd writer on laptop. References: <42E58483.2050602@gmail.com> <42E57ACD.8070909@linuxwireless.org> <42E5927B.20506@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <42E5927B.20506@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Puneet Vyas wrote: > Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > >> Puneet Vyas wrote: >> >>> >>> PS : I am not even sure if I am "allowed" to pull out the writer >>> like this. Am I supposed to "stop" the device first or something? >>> >> You are supoused to unmount the volume. Try it. umount /dev/cdrom ? >> Make sure that is it not in use, then unload it. >> New versions of gnome and so have the option to right click the >> loaded device and then to unmount. >> >> It should never hang. Does it hang with the floppy when removed? > > > 1. When I did umount /dev/cdrom it says - "umount: /dev/hdc is not > mounted (according to mtab)" > 2. Yes > > Thanks, > Puneet You are trying to unmount a /dev/hdc? hdc is an IDE Hard Drive, you have a CD burner, I would doubt that it is /de/hdc. type mount and that will tell you what is mounted, try umount /dev/cdrom. You need the hardware unloaded. Try /etc/init.d/hotplug stop and unplugg the hardware. See if that hangs the PC. Figure out on how to unload the module, then you will need to get us more info here for this problem to be looked... anyone has more suggestions? .Alejandro