On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> While burning with cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrecorder ..., I noticed I made a
> mistake (testing things out with CD-RW) and instead of waiting for the
> burn to finish, I just pressed ^C. The cd burner keeps on being busy
> flashing its burn light, the (IDE) device is inaccessbile and times out,
> i.e. all of cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrecorder -reset/-eject,
> hdparm /dev/cdrecorder hang with long timeouts. Needless to say,
> every app thinks it's very smart to lock the eject button, making it
> impossible to force a drive reset that way. I'm not quite game to use a
> hairpin while the disk is still spinning. Is this state fixable other
> than by the redmond solution?
Done it myself, panic!! I am trying to remember what I did.
Kill processes. Mount/umnount. The paperclip. Done in various orders.
Phil.
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