On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 00:06, Jeff Vian wrote: > Wolfgang wrote: > > >On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 22:09, Peter Morris wrote: > > > > > >>I have Fedora Core 2 RC1 > >>and a MCI DVD Burner. > >>The led on the front of the burner is blinking constantly (since I put a blank > >>disk in) > >>The disk will not eject and attempts to use either DVD-RECORD or GROWISOFS > >>fail. with an inability to open the disk. > >> > >>Any ideas (this may not strictly speaking be a FC2 issue.) > >> > >>Cheers, Pete. > >> > >> > >I'm unable to answer the reason why DVD-RECORD will not work with your > >burner. (Perhaps you need to update some files that are needed by > >DVD-RECORD). But, a straitened paper clip will eject the media. (Small > >hole near the tray area, usually below it) > > > >Wolf > > > > > Using the manual eject will not help with the blinking light. The drive > thinks it is in use and thus will not open for him. Although it likely > will open that way it does not address the root problem. > > First use ps -aux and grep for the cdrom. You also can use lsof and see > if anything is accessing the cdrom. If it is in use, that process will > need to be terminated. > > If it is not in use, then use the eject command to see if the drive can > be ejected that way. > > Of last resort you may need to reboot. > I had a problem when xcdroast would get confused and crashed on me but > failed to release the drive. The only way I could recover was to do a > full reboot to get rid of the rogue process that had left the drive hung > and inaccessible, and the process was defunct (zombied) and could not be > gotten rid of by normal means. [snip] That's true, and also a complete system shutdown (Complete power off) will reset the CD-ROM drive, when it's in that state. Wolf
