Re: PROBLEM:Machine hangs on pulling out USB cd writer on laptop.

Alejandro Bonilla
2005-07-26T00:54:58Z

Alejandro Bonilla wrote:

> Puneet Vyas wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My Dell 600m has a CD writer attached as a USB device. I need to use
>> the same slot to connect my floppy drive. After pulling out the CD
>> writer , the machine completely hangs and only hard boot works. I am
>> new to reporting bugs so I attached all info as according to
>> REPORTING-BUGS. Please let me know if more info is needed.Thanks.
>>
>> Warm regards,
>> Puneet Vyas
>>
>> 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?
>
> .Alejandro
> -
>
Also, go to a tty (ctrl+alt+f1), login and then unplug the device, If it
gives a kernel panic, show the output here.

.Alejandro