On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 06:21:02PM -0500, matthschulz wrote > On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > >>>>> "Dave" == Dave Wiard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Dave> is there any way to force umount to unconditionally unmount a drive? > > one > > Dave> of my cd drives is constantly touted as 'busy' when i know there's > > zero > > Dave> activity, so it refuses to unmount and hence i cannot eject. any help > > Dave> would be apreciated. > > > The thing was happend to me was: (I know is stupid) > > ~> > ~>cd /mnt/cdrom > /mnt/cdrom\>umount /mnt/cdrom > umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy > /mnt/cdrom\> > > Then You are using this drive by yourself. >
Another thing to watch for is CD players; if I've got the GNOME CD thingy on my panel, I can only eject CDs using the *!&*? GNOME CD thingy eject button. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
