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.
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