Hi,

Firstly, could anyone please tell me what's the philosophy behind
'locking' the CD-ROM tray when a CD has been mounted. Why can't I
eject a mounted CD? Additionally, is there some way with which I may
eject mounted CDs?

Secondly, when the kernel encouters an I/O error while accessing a
scratched CD, when does it give up? Why does it keep trying to access
the scratched portion again & again, thus effectively hanging the
process which initiated the read. Even when the initiating process is
killed, the kernel keeps trying to access the CD drive. Thus, one
can't unmount the CD cuz it's supposedly busy, and one can't eject the
CD cuz it's mounted. The only solution being a reboot.

TIA
Nandz.
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