From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 22:39:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA11533 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:39:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from tower.ti.com (tower.ti.com [192.94.94.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA11473 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:39:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vagner@spdc.ti.com) Received: from tilde.csc.ti.com ([157.170.1.149]) by tower.ti.com (8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA21349; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 00:38:42 -0600 (CST) Received: from spdc.ti.com (ox.spdc.ti.com [192.226.26.51]) by tilde.csc.ti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA00787; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 00:38:41 -0600 (CST) Received: from epcot.spdc.ti.com (epcot [192.226.26.53]) by spdc.ti.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA25872; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 00:38:39 -0600 (CST) Received: (from vagner@localhost) by epcot.spdc.ti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA04312; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 00:38:40 -0600 (CST) From: George Vagner Message-Id: <199712230638.AAA04312@epcot.spdc.ti.com> Subject: Re: Cdu31a cdrom To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 00:38:40 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Dec 22, 97 09:51:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk thats wierd, i cannot remove my cd-rom from the drive if it is mounted. pushing the button has no effect. same thing with the floppy, the button pushes in but the disk dont eject unless i umount /dev/fd0. > > On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Kwoody wrote: > > > > > I did it again...cd rom is mounted...I forget to umount the cd *before* > > opening it to change cd's and I'm hooped. Now I cant acccess the cdrom. > > All i get are media changed stuff. Also when I try and umount it now I > > get the message: > > > > umount: /dev/scd0a: invalid argument > > do an ls of /cdrom or try to chnage to the cdrom dir and get input/output > > error. > > > > is there a way to re-read fstab or something, cause the only way to fix > > this in the past is the reboot. I hate rebooting. > > You can try `umount -f /cdrom', but no guarantees you won't panic your > system. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > -- Laszlo G. Vagner Texas Instruments 13570 N. Central expressway M/S 3703 Dallas, Texas 75243 (972)995-4297 (972)598-5217 Pager Email vagner@tee eye dot com