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

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:12 AM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> <snip>
>> $ eject
>> eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'
>
> in reading your thread, i am presuming that you have gone thru your bios
> setup and correctly tried to enable your dvd drive and that controller is
> enabled and insured that control/data and power connectors are properly
> seated. [with bios update and reinstall of old bios]
>
> as a suggestion, do you have another cd or dvd drive that you can connect
> in place of current dvd drive, or another hard drive? this would prove out
> that cable and controller are ok. if not, move dvd drive to other controller.
>
> also, when you boot, does bios show 'updating nvram ... ok'? if not, battery
> may be getting low.

Thanks to all who tried to help me. Meanwhile, I opened the computer
and I changed the configuration of the cables, and now everything is
working fine. I have also removed one of the hard disks.

Paul