Are RWs a problem?

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 07 April 2006 20:35, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 18:59 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Tim, you're being obtuse.  It does not matter in the least which
> > method you use to umount, as long as you umount.  I never suggested
> > that ejecting was a solution.  Mike had referred to umounting from the
> > CLI, as you will see above.
>
> Looking further back in the thread, it looks like the prior poster is
> trying to do something with the disc.  i.e. They need the disc in the
> drive, *and* for it not to be in use.  The messages that both you and
> Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos reported this little bit in:  "Error trying to
> open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second."
>
> If it weren't for that (wanting to do something with the disc), then it
> wouldn't particularly matter how you freed the drive.  But if you're
> only going to have to put the disc back in again, and go through all of
> this to burn a disc (or do something else with it), the little problem I
> mentioned still stands (you want it just to be unmounted, not ejected).
>
What are you talking about?  The thread has discussed several ways in which 
you can umount it.  Only you keep going on about ejecting.

Anne
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