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Operating Systems AIX eject dvd/cd Post 302254816 by bakunin on Wednesday 5th of November 2008 08:23:05 AM

11-05-2008

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Hmmm....

Ever tried the "cdeject" command to eject a cd? See the man page on how to use it.

Save for this (obvious) solution there might be several problems which could prevent a CD drive to eject its content:

1. CD is still mounted
If the filesystem on the medium is still mounted the drive won't eject it. Umount it first (man umount), then eject it.

2. Unable to umount
In case you already tried 1. and didn't succeed in umounting it (probably with a "device busy" error): search for processes still accessing the filesystem and kill them. Also often seen: if your current path is somewhere on the CD-ROM drive your own login shell is the process "accessing" the filesystem - do a "cd /somewhere/else" to remedy that, tehn umount again.

3. Hardware broken
Sometimes (very rarely, but it happens) the drives hardware is simply broken (or the drive been cut off from power) and it won't eject the medium therefore. Unbend a paper-clip (or use some similar device) and push into the tiny hole in front of the drive. This will unlock the spring inside and eject the drawer.

I hope this helps.

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halmount

halmount(1)							   User Commands						       halmount(1)

NAME

       halmount - mount and umount filesystems via hal

SYNOPSIS

       halmount [OPTIONS]... <device|label> [mountpoint]
       halmount -u [OPTIONS]... <device|label|mountpoint>
       halmount -e [OPTIONS]... <device|label|mountpoint>

DESCRIPTION

       halmount can mount and umount filesystems via hal.  Hotpluggable devices and media such as USB sticks and CD-ROMs are typically not entered
       into /etc/fstab and are therefore not mountable by normal users via the mount(8) command. Instead hal provides methods to mount and  umount
       such devices.

       Additionally  it's  also  possible  to  eject devices. For devices like USB sticks eject means the device cannot be mounted again until the
       stick is re-plugged, ie a "save remove" feature.

OPTIONS

       -t TYPE
	      specify the file system type to use

       -o OPTIONS
	      specify mount options

       -v     verbose listing of devices

       -u     umount specified device

       -e     umount and eject specified device

       -a     perform requested mount/umount/eject operation all available devices

       --listudi
	      list UDIs of devices, useful for debugging

EXAMPLES

       halmount
	      list all mountable devices known to hal

       halmount /dev/hdc
	      mount device hdc on default mount point (/media/volumelabel)

       halmount /dev/hdc cdrom
	      mount device hdc on /media/cdrom

       halmount -u "Holiday Pictures"
	      umount device that has the label "Holiday Pictures"

SEE ALSO

       mount(8), umount(8), eject(1), fstab(5)

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