Re: Can't eject a previously mounted CD?

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 12:15:35AM -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote:

> I suspect this problem has something to do with my nForce2 motherboard.
> When I mount a CD, unmount it, and try to eject it from my drive, the
> drive flashes the red 'busy / locked' light and refuses to let me eject
> it. I'm using the AMD / nVidia IDE kernel support and the obvious
> conclusion is that it's failing to release the device or something. Is
> this true?

No. :) There isn't anything in that driver that'd be called upon mount
or unmount, it just sets the timings on boottime or when hdparm is
called.

> I suspect the fix would be a one liner.

If you're using SUSE 9.0 ...

	kill suseplugger

... perhaps?

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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