Re: I can eject a mounted CD

From: Giuliano Pochini (pochini@shiny.it)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 02:49:55 EST


>> [Giu@Jay Giu]$ eject /mnt/cdmac/ umount: /dev/sr0 is not in the fstab (and
>> you are not root) eject: unmount of `/dev/sr0' failed

Eject(1) is suid.

> I have similar problem with my swim3 floppy drive. Digging deeply I found that
> when I make do folowing steps then disk is lost and I have to reboot to get it
> back:

I can't try this case because I haven't a floppy. When I ehect the cd I can
recover it by unmounting it. But the CD is read-only. I can try with a MO, but
the actual problem is that eject is buggy. It's not a kernel bug. I'll fix it...

Bye.
    Giuliano Pochini ->)|(<- Shiny Network {AS6665} ->)|(<-

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