Re: [Sheflug] Unknown device under RH7.2

[Alex Hudson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 21:24, richard davies wrote:
> and tried ls -l /dev/cdrom* to see what my system said result is 
> /dev/cdrom -> ../cdroms/cdrom0 in white text flashing on a red
> background

Broken symlink - sounds like your devfs install is knackered. Are there
any cdrom references in /etc/devfsd.conf?

> Attempting to unmount the drive gives.
> 
> [root@mybox cdrom1]# umount /dev/cdrom
> umount: /dev/cdrom: not found

You can't unmount a device; only a mountpoint. So, for example, 'umount
/mnt/cdrom' would be valid.

> This is odd as I can look at the disk in the drive but I can't eject it.

Typing 'mount' will return a list of the currently mounted devices, and
their various mountpoints.

Cheers,

Alex.


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