Re: [Sheflug] ejecting mounted cdroms...

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

Hm... Yet another opinion... Sorry, but various files in the kernel source
tree suggest that (at least sometimes) it is possible? Kernel -
2.0.39, 2.2.13, 2.2.18, 2.4.0, 2.4.1 - all exhibit the same
behaviour (in this respect).

Cheers
Guennadi

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Will Newton wrote:

> 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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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
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