Re: [Sheflug] ejecting mounted cdroms...

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

> I always was sure one can't eject mounted CDs manually (or by
> 'eject')... However, yesterday it turned out that I could... I press the
> button - CD ejects, mount still shows it mounted, ls /cdrom also lists
> files (cached) happily... What's wrong?

What kernel version?
Both IDE and SCSI are frankly useless at figuring out if your drive is
open/closed/halfway.


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