Sounds to me like a marginal CD drive. On 1 Oct 02, at 20:26, Bryan Simmons wrote:
> The damn CD-ROM is still going. I was able to > successfully run umount /mnt/cdrom. But, of course, I > can't remount it because "the device is busy". I'd really > like to find out why this happens and how to recover from > it without a reboot. It happens quite often with old or > burned CDs, and it's a problem I've had with 4 different > CD-ROMs on 4 different distros of Linux. > > On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 02:38, Wladimir Foo 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. > > > > As Ray mentioned earlier, it would be easier to come up > > with a possible remedy if we knew what you were doing. > > But, here's a something else that might help. Try using > > lsof: > > > > lsof | grep /mnt/cdrom . > > > > lsof will output the program(s) that is(are) using > > resources on /mnt/cdrom. Now simply quit (or kill those > > programs) and you should be able to unmount the cdrom > > drive. > > > > -- > > http://www.linuxvoodoo.com > > perl -le > > '$_="75>42833<33.=3?,13406577073890:;90833<330690<3!!";t > > r[0-?][ YXOUIWLVETHDCNM];print' > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > > "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at > > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read > > the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > -- > Regards, > > Bryan Simmons > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being > run by smart people who are putting us on or > by imbeciles who really mean it". > ---Mark Twain > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
