Problems with DVD burner

[Peter Morris]

Hehe, I was wondering why I was not seeing any responses from the group. but 
it turned out that one of my auto filtering macros that I set up to try and 
stem the tide of SPAN was catching the messages and binning them.

I tried LSOF X and ps ax |grep "/dev/X" with X = hdd and dvd (dvd->hdd)
but nothing, I have now powered down the machine and will try again.

:-)

Cheers, P.

On Saturday 21 Feb 2004 1:22 pm, Wolfgang wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 00:06, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > Wolfgang wrote:
> > >On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 22:09, Peter Morris wrote:
> > >>I have Fedora Core 2 RC1
> > >>and a MCI DVD Burner.
> > >>The led on the front of the burner is blinking constantly (since I put
> > >> a blank disk in)
> > >>The disk will not eject and attempts to use either DVD-RECORD or
> > >> GROWISOFS fail. with an inability to open the disk.
> > >>
> > >>Any ideas (this may not strictly speaking be a FC2 issue.)
> > >>
> > >>Cheers, Pete.
> > >
> > >I'm unable to answer the reason why DVD-RECORD will not work with your
> > >burner. (Perhaps you need to update some files that are needed by
> > >DVD-RECORD). But, a straitened paper clip will eject the media. (Small
> > >hole near the tray area, usually below it)
> > >
> > >Wolf
> >
> > Using the manual eject will not help with the blinking light.  The drive
> > thinks it is in use and thus will not open for him.  Although it likely
> > will open that way it does not address the root problem.
> >
> > First use ps -aux and grep for the cdrom.  You also can use lsof and see
> > if anything is accessing the cdrom.  If it is in use, that process will
> > need to be terminated.
> >
> > If it is not in use, then use the eject command to see if the drive can
> > be ejected that way.
> >
> > Of last resort you may need to reboot.
> > I had a problem when xcdroast would get confused and crashed on me but
> > failed to release the drive.  The only way I could recover was to do a
> > full reboot to get rid of the rogue process that had left the drive hung
> > and inaccessible, and the process was defunct (zombied) and could not be
> > gotten rid of by normal means.
>
> [snip]
>
> That's true, and also a complete system shutdown (Complete power off)
> will reset the CD-ROM drive, when it's in that state.
>
> Wolf