FWIW: I can now manually mount my cdrom without any problems and eject said manually mounted cdrom as well. It reads fine too. Remember that hald is still set to off. On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 12:46 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:45:53AM -0700, Kim Lux wrote: > > Is this related: From 2.6.10-rc2 changelog: > > > > <teanropo@xxxxxxxxx> > > [PATCH] Don't initialize /dev/pg0 to be always busy > > pg is parallel port - unrelated > -- Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc