On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 06:10:58PM +0000, Paul wrote: > I have been listening (and ripping) a couple of CDs I was given as > presents yesterday. They both claim to be copy protected, but both seem > happy enough in my machine. They both played fine, but failed to eject. If its one of the Windows booby trap ones then HAL may well have decided it is a disk and mounted it, that migh texplain the lack of eject ? > I did a power reset and they would still not eject, so I used a trusty > paper clip and opened the drawers to extract the discs. Be aware that several CD and DVD drive vendors treat copy protected discs as a warranty invalidating event..