Error Unmounting CD Drive

[Gertjan Vinkesteijn]

Steven P. Ulrick wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:18:04 +1300
>"Tristan Brynildsen" <tristanb at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
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>>I am a linux newbie and have a CDRW/DVD combo drive and when I try to
>>unmount a CD after using an RPM or other file from it (excluding
>>copying a file to hard drive) says ___error: cannot unmount. Drive in
>>use___ even though there is no other processes running or anything
>>using the drive, how can I stop this so that I can unmount it. Is
>>there anyway to force an unmount? Thanks!
>> 
>>Tristan Brynildsen
>>tristanb at slingshot.co.nz
>>tristanb2004 at msn.com
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>Hello, Everyone :)
>I have been using various versions of Red Hat, and now, Fedora Core, for
>a few years now, and I will be looking forward to the answer to this
>problem as well, as I have seen it on my system.  In my case, I am using
>an Iomega 52x24x52x External USB2 CDRW drive.
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>Steven P. Ulrick
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If I am not on the the directory of the drive somewhere then the command:
eject cdrom
or
eject cdrom1
will give the result of unmount and ejecting it, without be su

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