Problems ejecting cd/dvd media on F9

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 09:12:22 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk> wrote:
>>  I have an sata dvd/rw that does the same thing.
>> It opens and then closes.
>
> Me too.
>
> It is very annoying, especially when I burn CD/DVD's.
>
> My burn script does an eject, and now after the recent
> upgrade it reloads and mounts the disk.
>
> I have to catch the tray with the left hand and
> hold it while I remove the disk with the right hand.
>
> It hasn't broken the drive - yet :-)

In my case, the trick to eject the media is as follows:

1. press the eject button in the tray and wait a few seconds;

2. press again the same button.

Paul




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