The CDROMRESET ioctl would probably have unlocked the door.
> I realise this report is of poor value as such, the situation is propably
> impossible to reproduce for you, and possibly hard to produce for me, too.
>
> However, I would like to know if there is something I could do to debug
> this if it reoccurs.
>
> The drive is a crappy Cyber Drive 24x with which I've had other
> difficulties. While playing audio it sounds like it was crunching stones (
> the audio signal -- although the drive itself sounds like that too. The
> sound can sometimes be remedied by tapping and shaking the drive, which
> would suggest a mechanism fault or something. This weird, because cdda2wav
> usually rips quite well -- never these kind of noises.)
>
> This time, though, I don't think it was the drives fault, since it happily
> ejected the cd as soon as I rebooted the machine.
I don't know what exactly to make of this. Somehow the process
got stuck in the driver and the drive then nevet got released. A
stack trace of the process would probably be useful - you could
do that with the KDB debugging patches, for example.
> v@iki.fi
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