Hehe, I was wondering why I was not seeing any responses from the group. but it turned out that one of my auto filtering macros that I set up to try and stem the tide of SPAN was catching the messages and binning them. I tried LSOF X and ps ax |grep "/dev/X" with X = hdd and dvd (dvd->hdd) but nothing, I have now powered down the machine and will try again. :-) Cheers, P. On Saturday 21 Feb 2004 1:22 pm, Wolfgang wrote: > 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
