On 30 Sep 2002, Bryan Simmons wrote:

> I have two terrible CD-ROMs and a lot of shady CDs.  Sometimes I'll put
> one in the drive and Linux will fail to read it properly.  Sometimes
> this means I just can't read the disk.  Other times it means that the
> damn drive light stays on and the disk stays mounted and "busy" until I
> reboot the frickin PC.
> 
> Does anyone know how to remedy such a situation without a reboot?
> 
Maybe by killing the process? Like, using top or ps axu to find a process 
ID and then doing "kill <pid>" from the command line (as superuser, most 
likely)? Don't know fer sure of that works since I'm pretty much a newbie 
myself, but I'd start off trying something like that. 

James

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