ejecting cd-rom

[Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:58:30 +0100, prioualexandre  
<prioualexandre at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> vladuz976 wrote:
>
>> hi
>> i have problems ejecting cd roms.
>> i can mount them with mount /dev/hdc
>> but it wont let me eject them.
>> mount /dev/hdc
>> eject /dev/hdc
>> eject: unable to open `/dev/hdc'
>>
>> can anybody help?
>>
>>
>>
>     see this cmd :
>           df -h
>     if you not have one ligne with : /dev/hdc , your CDROM is not mounted
>
>      else, execute  :
>           cd <enter>
>           eject /dev/hdc  or eject cdrom
>                 but see this file : /etc/fstab
>        for see your mount point of this device
>
>
I don't know about devices, but I didn't see 'umount' before eject above.
I can't eject my cdrom unless it's unmounted. (But I'm in Redhat 9 too.)


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