On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, anthony baldwin wrote: > Hi, > Actually, I have two issues, the first one being that I have not heard from this > list in two weeks. I have several e-mail accounts and all of them have been > getting filled with this ridiculous Windope worm that is going around, but I have > not received a single message from this and two other lists to which I subscribe at > Red Hat (OS Now and K12ltsp). So I am hoping for some confirmation of receipt of > this message and, perhaps, an explanation of why I haven't heard from anyone. > Ok, that was simple enough. > Now to the main matter at hand: > I was having some issues with printing (which I finally narrowed down to a USB > issue and solved), but in my quest to solve them I did a fresh install > (congratualtions to me, I finally wiped off my windope partition and reclaimed my > entire hard drive in the process...YEAH!). Now, I am having some issues with > ounting my two CD drives (one is a burner). > When I mount a CD in the drives, I often cannot remove the media, even upon > unmounting it (drive won't open). Furthermore, if I do remove the media in question successfully (which only happens with the burner on occassion), when I > insert new media, the computer won't recognize it, and, in fact, acts as if the > previous media were still present. It used to be that left-clicking on the CDrom > icons on my desktop would give me a menu that included "eject" as an option, that > would work successfully to unmount media and leave the drive ready to accept new > media, but this option no longer exists. > I am afraid that I don't even know where to begin in diagnosing the problem, not > understanding the process of mounting media with any depth (I have only been using > Linux for about a year and a half, now). > I would appreciate any assistance offerd with this issue, including instructions > regarding what further information might be useful in it's diagnosis. Can't speak to the no mail in 2 weeks, thing, but there has been some decrease in traffic, recently. As to the CD, you can, as root, type "eject /dev/cdrom" (or /dev/scd0, or /dev/hdd, or whatever device your CD lives at) and it will unmount and eject the disc. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
