I booted up Windows 7 on the computer and it too was unable to open the drive door or read the disk. I turned off the machine for the night and, in the morning, booted up Ubuntu. Pressing the button during the boot process, the gate opened and the tray came out.
It's possible that the hardware is failing intermittently, or I perhaps the software under Ubuntu put the drive into a locked gate state which was not released by a reboot but was released by a complete power down. If the latter explanation is right, it would be wonderful if someone figured out how to fix it without powering down, for example by a change to what happens when 'sudo eject -i off' is run. However, I don't know how anyone could reproduce this problem reliably, especially on another machine. So I could not, in good conscience, ask for the issue to be re-opened. If others do report the same problem and the issue is reopened, maybe the notes I've posted here and in comment #6 will be of use. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398670 Title: eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eject/+bug/398670/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
