[CS-FSLUG] Would someone take pity on me?

[Brian Derr]

On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 16:47 -0600, Ruth Marlene Friesen wrote:
> 3. How do you eject a CD to switch to another, when you've unmounted, and you 
> keep getting the message that the dev is busy? Nothing is even looking at it, 
> but I can't open the drive. I tried "eject" as a command and the plain CD rom 
> drive opened.

I don't think I saw an answer to this so I'll give it a shot.  Are you,
or some program you are running, in the directory that the CD is mounted
on, ie /mnt/cdrom?  If so you will not be able to unmount the device.
You need to get out of the directory (a plain `cd` command will do) then
try to unmount the device.  Also, it seems you have two CD-ROM devices
so to use the `eject` command with success you are going to have to
specify to the program which device to eject.  On my box I have my CD
burner set to /dev/cdrw and my plain CD-ROM set to /dev/cdrom.  So if I
want to eject my burner I type `eject cdrw` or `eject cdrom` for the
plain drive.  (As a quick aside don't actually use the graves ``)
-- 
Brian

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