noli alfonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quite a number of times I have loaded a cdrom into my drive only to find > out that the said disk has damage or unreadable. But Linux will just > keep on and try to read the disk making it impossible to eject the > disk. unmounting will not work as it is not mounted yet. What process > should I kill to stop linux from trying to read the disk hence allowing > for an eject command.
I find having cdrdao handy for this, even on CD-ROMs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cdrdao unlock --device ATA:1,0,0 Simply works wonders. Of course that assumes there are no processes accessing the device (know through fuser or lsof.) YMMV -- ZAK B. ELEP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- <http://zakame.spunge.org> 1024D/FA53851D 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D -- Running Debian GNU+Linux testing/unstable. GnuPG signed mail preferred.
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