Problems with DVD burner
Wolfgang
wolfgang at rpi.net.au
Sat Feb 21 13:22:42 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 00:06, Jeff Vian wrote:
> Wolfgang wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 22:09, Peter Morris wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I have Fedora Core 2 RC1
> >>and a MCI DVD Burner.
> >>The led on the front of the burner is blinking constantly (since I put a blank
> >>disk in)
> >>The disk will not eject and attempts to use either DVD-RECORD or GROWISOFS
> >>fail. with an inability to open the disk.
> >>
> >>Any ideas (this may not strictly speaking be a FC2 issue.)
> >>
> >>Cheers, Pete.
> >>
> >>
> >I'm unable to answer the reason why DVD-RECORD will not work with your
> >burner. (Perhaps you need to update some files that are needed by
> >DVD-RECORD). But, a straitened paper clip will eject the media. (Small
> >hole near the tray area, usually below it)
> >
> >Wolf
> >
> >
> Using the manual eject will not help with the blinking light. The drive
> thinks it is in use and thus will not open for him. Although it likely
> will open that way it does not address the root problem.
>
> First use ps -aux and grep for the cdrom. You also can use lsof and see
> if anything is accessing the cdrom. If it is in use, that process will
> need to be terminated.
>
> If it is not in use, then use the eject command to see if the drive can
> be ejected that way.
>
> Of last resort you may need to reboot.
> I had a problem when xcdroast would get confused and crashed on me but
> failed to release the drive. The only way I could recover was to do a
> full reboot to get rid of the rogue process that had left the drive hung
> and inaccessible, and the process was defunct (zombied) and could not be
> gotten rid of by normal means.
[snip]
That's true, and also a complete system shutdown (Complete power off)
will reset the CD-ROM drive, when it's in that state.
Wolf
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