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Those pesky CD's


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OK,

Im sure Im not along but what does everyone else do when you put in a Cd it won't read.

dmseg tells me

cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!

attempt to access beyond end of device

0b:00: rw=0, want=4, (=0x4), limit=2

I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 0

MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850

MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-15

I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 0

FAT: unable to read boot sector

FAT: freeing iocharset=iso8859-15

 

Marvelous but since its probably a coaster I wanna get it our.

Hmm

device on desktop/eject .... failed

try again a few times and same thing...

sometimes forcing it with root permissions helps

i.e. umount /mnt/cdrom OR

eject cdrom

AS root

but like last night I left an eject cdrom going all night....

This morning I had to reboot to get it out!!!

 

What does everyone else do ????

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First I close any and all kde (especially konqueror) windows that have had any direct or potential contact w/ the /mnt directory.

Then i do lsof /mnt to see what is accessing the drive if it still doesn't eject (as root) and if i find a program i kill it.

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Usually fubar's method of closing all windows works for me. But if that should fail --- you can always use a paper clip to poke in that little hole on the face of the drive thats just big enough for it (straighten clip about 3 inches worth and push straight in till the drawer begins to budge)

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Im paper clip traumatised from M$ at work; :wink: I can't even touch one anymore...

 

hehe

 

Seriously though I think its partly KDE but it also used to happen in Gnome using Nautilus becuase it used to scan the directory to see how many files it contained, looked nice BUT ...

 

Ive been having a bad time becuase Ive been going through a whole load of old backup CD's trying to bin duplicates and many really old ones are scratched etc.

It sees to just keep scanning.

Ive tried restarting KDE and it works 90%.

 

The drive isn't actually mounted, its just scanning....(usually)

 

Anyway, annonying but not fatal....

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