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Re: cd will not eject

From faeychild <faeychild@noname.afraid.org>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: cd will not eject
Followup-To comp.os.linux.hardware
Date 2013-10-31 21:07 +1100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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notbob wrote:


> 
> eject -v will tell which one it isn't (the other one), then jes add
> <name>.  I did:
> 
> eject -v /dev/sr0
> eject: device name is `/dev/sr0'
> eject: expanded name is `/dev/sr0'
> eject: `/dev/sr0' is not mounted
> eject: `/dev/sr0' is not a mount point
> eject: `/dev/sr0' is not a multipartition device
> eject: trying to eject `/dev/sr0' using CD-ROM eject command
> eject: CD-ROM eject command failed
> eject: trying to eject `/dev/sr0' using SCSI commands
> eject: SCSI eject failed
> eject: trying to eject `/dev/sr0' using floppy eject command
> eject: floppy eject command failed
> eject: trying to eject `/dev/sr0' using tape offline command
> eject: tape offline command failed
> eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> Currently researching "Inappropriate ioctl for device" errors.
> 
> nb


it is becoming annoyingly complicated just to eject a disk
-- 
faeychild
Mandriva Linux release 2010.2 (Official) for i586
Running KDE 4.4.5 on 2.6.36.2-desktop-2mnb kernel.

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cd will not eject faeychild <faeychild@noname.afraid.org> - 2013-10-30 09:29 +1100
  Re: cd will not eject HASM <netnews@invalid.com> - 2013-10-29 15:42 -0700
  Re: cd will not eject Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2013-10-30 02:06 +0100
  Re: cd will not eject Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2013-10-30 13:05 +0000
  Re: cd will not eject "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2013-10-30 09:10 -0800
  Re: cd will not eject faeychild <faeychild@noname.afraid.org> - 2013-10-31 09:20 +1100
    Re: cd will not eject notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-10-30 23:08 +0000
      Re: cd will not eject Kirk_Von_Rockstein <Kirk_Von_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> - 2013-10-30 23:26 +0000
        Re: cd will not eject notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-10-30 23:36 +0000
          Re: cd will not eject "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2013-10-30 21:29 -0800
          Re: cd will not eject faeychild <faeychild@noname.afraid.org> - 2013-10-31 21:07 +1100
        Re: cd will not eject faeychild <faeychild@noname.afraid.org> - 2013-10-31 21:05 +1100
      Re: cd will not eject faeychild <faeychild@noname.afraid.org> - 2013-10-31 21:03 +1100

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