Harry Ohlsen wrote:
..snip....
> To test that the CD was burnt OK, I mounted it in the drive I normally use as
> a CD reader (which happens to be IDE, so I'm not sure why the SCSI modules
> have anything to do with the problem; it's just the only thing I can think of
> that's changed).
The CD writing prog actually wants a SCSI device, so ide-scsi converts
the ide to scsi as far as the prog is concerned. In the
cd-writing-HOWTO.
>
> The CD worked fine. I was able to umount it fine. However, when I tried to
> eject the CD by hand it seems to be locked. Trying to use "eject /dev/cdrom"
> gave me the error "eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument".
My guess is that you are probably specifiying an IDe device and not the
scsi device. Try /dev/scd0 (scsi CD zero).
> Is there some way to unlock a CD device the kernel thinks is busy?
find the busying user/process (look for something that is in a directory
on the cdrom).
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