On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, James Sparenberg wrote:

>    I've had this problem on some systems (with a number of distro's) and
> the problem was that the correct symlink in /dev isn't created. 

You will note that was dealt with earlier (modprobe ide-cd if root is the 
only person to have logged in).

> The
> default in eject is to eject /dev/cdrom   but if the real device for
> your ide-scsi is say scd0 ejecting /dev/cdrom won't work.  Try this if
> for example your real device is /dev/scd0 then type eject scd0 .... if
> it ejects then you have the symlink problem.  Two fixes either create a
> little script that does the eject scd0  or create the symlink.

I was running eject on /dev/hdc, which is the only possible device file 
for the drive (no ide-scsi emulation). Reboot, and it seems to be better 
... but we'll see what happens ...

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