dell + drive door won't respond

[Patrick Boutilier]

Larry Richardson wrote:
> Anyone seen this under FC2 on a dell machine, where the button on the 
> drive door will just decide at random that it won't respond to a press? 
>  Once this happens, I can't get the cd-rom drive to respond at all... 
> the only cure seems to be a re-boot.  Has anyone experienced something 
> similar, and/or found a way to get the drive to respond again without 
> rebooting?

Is there a CD in the drive that is mounted?

> 
> Larry Richardson
>