On Sunday 23 January 2005 16:06, Larry Richardson wrote: > Anyone seen this under FC2 on a dell machine, where the button on the > drive door will just decide at random that it won't respond to a press? > Once this happens, I can't get the cd-rom drive to respond at all... > the only cure seems to be a re-boot. Has anyone experienced something > similar, and/or found a way to get the drive to respond again without > rebooting? > > Larry Richardson Make sure that the drive is unmounted. With a terminal, type 'mount' and see if it is mounted. if so, unmount with 'umount <cd mount piont>' (replace <cd mount point> with wherever the cd is mounted, usually /mnt/cdrom)
