Gowator Posted September 14, 2003 Report Share Posted September 14, 2003 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 ???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fubar::chi Posted September 16, 2003 Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted September 16, 2003 Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted September 16, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 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.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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