Re: CD-ROM drive locked?

John Sanabria (josanabr@sunsite.univalle.edu.co)
Thu, 28 Nov 1996 14:35:37 +0500 (GMT)


On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Chris Saia wrote:

>
> With recent kernels I've been having difficulty with my IDE CD-ROM drive door
> staying locked, even with a push of the eject button. I'm not aware of any
> software to open the drive door, and forcing the drive door open manually with
> the "emergency release" lever, inserting a CD, and closing the door manually,
> doesn't read a CD... the drive doesn't even acknowledge a CD has been inserted.
>

try, fdisk -l, before you try to open the CD unit. And voila.

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