On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Ejecting the CD from the drive didn't work, and there was nothing to > unmount. The emergency ejection hole is blocked when power is on, by the > looks of it. In the end I had to reboot. No problems with shutdown.
I've had a similar problem after burning a cd when using the -eject switch to cdrecord. Now and than the drive ejects and cdrecord locks up. I can kill cdrecord with ^C, but the CD writer is useless until I reboot --- it won't even bring the drive door in (with the manual eject), and appears the drive looses all power. The machine reboots without any extra errors. Unfortunatly I don't have root access to the machine to do any decent diagnostics. Am using the Computer Science department's modified RedHat distro. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury "Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change." -- "Collateral Language" John Collins and Ross Glover ed.
