[Gllug] Locked in DVD!
Ian Norton
bredroll at darkspace.org.uk
Sun Aug 22 11:25:46 UTC 2004
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:17:04AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:02:45AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > I have a DVD that has got 'locked in' to my CD/DVD combo drive and is
> > stubbornly resisting all efforts to unmount it on my Fedora Core 2 box. I've
> > tried as user and as root, but the drawer still refuses to open. The 'disk
> > management' GUI shows that it is not mounted, and I'm unable to mount it
> > either! Its been stuck now for approaching 24 hours, and I need to use the
> > drive for something else.
> >
> > Can anyone give me any idea of how to open the drawer without rebooting
> > please?
>
> What process is using the drive? As root, do 'fuser /dev/cdrom'
>
drop down to single user mode,
$#> init 1
enter your root password, unmount the drive, eject,
return to multi user mode,
$#> init 5
Ian
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