eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'

Nataraj incoming-fedora-list at rjl.com
Sun Aug 31 19:49:15 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 20:20 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> When I try to open the DVD burner tray with the command eject, I get
> >> the following problem:
> >>
> >> $ eject
> >> eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'
> >> $
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >
> > Use "eject /dev/name-of-dvd-device". If you're not sure what the device
> > name is, an easy way to find out is by firing up k3b, which will look
> > for it (there are probably quicker ways but this works).
> 
> Thanks, Patrick. K3b does not see the inserted CD.
> 
> The problem that I am reporting did not occur before. I suspect that
> some updates may have destroyed what was correctly working.
> 
> Any further ideas?
> 
> Paul
> 

/dev/sr0
/dev/sr1
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Nataraj





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