It seemed to me that I already expressed may thanks, but apparently it didn't hit the right person. So once again: among lots of pieces of advice (I remain grateful to everybody who wanted to be helpful) I got two answers that really solved my problem: 1) Dave Sherohman wrote: > lsof should give you the pid of any processess using it.
2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Try "man fuser" and learn how to find out which process is still blocking > the device. Thanks again! Blazej I know it is a bit late, but I havent read my mail since than. This is in reply to: Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Wayne Topa said: > > Try a paper clip, strightened out, and inserted into the little hole > > in the front of the CDROM drive. Works on the 3 I have. > > I thought you weren't supposed to do that while the system is powered up. > Something about possibly damaging the hardware. Is that no longer a problem? > (Or did I just image the whole thing...)