[antonia] ~ > rpm -qf `which eject`
eject-2.0.13-11
Disabling the IDE one to use the USB does seem like a good answer... but
don't know how they could do that to each other. Hopefully someone has a
good idea...
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, William Moon wrote:
> Those are 3 good suggestions. I will take them in order and tell what I
> discovered.
>
> 1. I don't seem to have an 'eject' command on my system. Do you know if
> there is a package that I could install that would give me that capability?
>
> 2. I ran lsof at various times and there was nothing accessing the drive
> after it was umounted.
>
> 3. What I didn't say when stating the problem (because I didn't think
> there was any connection at the time) was that there was already an ide
> cdrom drive in my computer. I got the external usb CD/DVD drive to get
> DVD capability. When I was looking around in the /proc/sys/dev/cdrom
> subdirectory per your suggestion I noticed that the 'info' file had 2
> columns, one for the ide drive and one for the usb/scsi drive. All the
> other files ('lock', 'autoeject', etc) only had one value (0 or 1). So I
> wondered to myself :
> a) Which drive does the single value apply to? and
> b) Could having 2 cdrom drives be causing a conflict somewhere?
>
> So I went back to my kernel configuration and disabled support for the
> ide drive. When I rebooted , the first thing I noticed was that the
> entire /proc/sys/dev/cdrom directory no longer exists. Also the usb
> drive now ejects properly!
>
> So unless anyone can think of anything better, I guess i will have 2
> different kernels, one for using the ide drive and one for using the usb
> drive.
>
> Thanks very much for the help..
>
> p.s. Changing the /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock setting didn't have any effect.
>
>
> Theodoros V. Kalamatianos wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, William Moon wrote:
>>
>>> the drive will not eject when I push the eject button. This is even
>>> after I have unmounted the drive from the file system. The only way I
>>> can get the cd out is to reboot to Windows and then eject it.
>>
>> 1. what about using the `eject' command ? Does that work ?
>>
>> 2. Can you verify with lsof that nothing is accessing the drive ?
>>
>> 3. what is your /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock setting ? Perhaps changing it
>> to zero might help (bear in mind that this way you may get some I/O
>> errors after you remove the disk).
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Theodoros Kalamatianos
>>
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