Re: PROBLEM:Machine hangs on pulling out USB cd writer on laptop.

[Alejandro Bonilla <abonilla@linuxwireless.org>]

Alejandro Bonilla wrote:

> Puneet Vyas wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > My Dell 600m has a CD writer attached as a USB device. I need to use 
> > the same slot to connect my floppy drive. After pulling out the CD 
> > writer , the machine completely hangs and only hard boot works. I am 
> > new to reporting bugs so I attached all info as according to 
> > REPORTING-BUGS. Please let me know if more info is needed.Thanks.
> >
> > Warm regards,
> > Puneet Vyas
> >
> > PS : I am not even sure if I am "allowed" to pull out the writer like 
> > this. Am I supposed to "stop" the device first or something?
> You are supoused to unmount the volume. Try it. umount /dev/cdrom ? 
> Make sure that is it not in use, then unload it.
> New versions of gnome and so have the option to right click the loaded 
> device and then to unmount.
>
> It should never hang. Does it hang with the floppy when removed?
>
> .Alejandro
> -
Also, go to a tty (ctrl+alt+f1), login and then unplug the device, If it 
gives a kernel panic, show the output here.

.Alejandro

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