At 03:44 PM 1/2/97 +0700, Shaggy Im-erbtham wrote [excerpt]:
>I cannot eject the tray of CD-ROM drive while in Slackware. To change CD's
>I have had to go into DOS. 
>
>The CDROM is already mounted

... and that's the problem -- you have to umount it before Linux will let
you eject it. The sequence is (as root):

umount /cdrom
(eject CD)
(load new CD)
mount /dev/hdb /cdrom

There's a shortcut for the last line, but I never remember it.

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