cdrom/floppy umount issue possible bug

[M.Hockings]

David Curtis wrote:

>FWIW to this thread:
>
>I have seen this too. __But it only happens when I try to eject the cd
>with the open button first__, not with the right click menu from the cd
>icon or umount. (Sorry, it's force of habit.) Obviously the file system
>is still mounted and the cd won't eject. After that the menu does not
>work nor does umount by user or root (without the -l option of course),
>I get the same message as others: device busy.
>
>I had no probs with RH9. The question is, did RH9 use the -l option in
>it's umount/eject routine and fedora doesn't and it's a software bug (as
>stated by Damon Fister) or could it be hardware related? In case anyone
>thinks this, I have a LG GCC-4320B CD-R/W DVD.
>
>
>On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 17:39, damon fister wrote:
>  
>
>>>This is a known bug in Fedora, and a real pain if you
>>>use removable media a lot. Try the umount command with
>>>the -l (lazy) option. It seems that trying to unmount
>>>the drive can make it appear to be busy!
>>>
>>>  umount -l /mnt/floppy
>>>      
>>>
>>Thank you very much for your help, hopefully this will be resolved
>>soon :-)
>>
>>Damon
>>    
>>
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I don't think that it is related to your drive.  I have the same problem 
with a Ricoh CDRW drive.

Mike