Heh it doesnt have a big enough slide underneath it for a paperclip :/. Have been trying to slip stuff into it for the last 20 minutes.

Ok will try that then.

Dave

Lee Begg wrote:

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 00:51, David R K Walker wrote:


Hi,

Im currently at university and the cd-rom drive on the computer I am at
has eaten one of my cd's and wont give it back.  For some reason I have
access to /mnt/cdrom (Which we mere students normally dont have) but I
cannot get it to eject the CD.  It is just a music CD but I dont want to
leave it sitting around :).

If anyone is up late tonight and think they have a solution for me then
that would be brilliant - otherwise I will try find someone in the
computer science admin to help.

Dave.



First of all, make sure you don't have any terminals or windows open that are currently in /mnt/cdrom.


try the following command:
umount /mnt/cdrom

Note: it's not unmount (if the missing "n" is found, please return it to Berkley).

If all else fails, reboot the machine and take the cd out while it's booting.
If that fails, find a paper clip.  :-)

Later
Lee







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