dell + drive door won't respond

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Larry Richardson wrote:

> Anyone seen this under FC2 on a dell machine, where the button on the 
> drive door will just decide at random that it won't respond to a 
> press?  Once this happens, I can't get the cd-rom drive to respond at 
> all... the only cure seems to be a re-boot.  Has anyone experienced 
> something similar, and/or found a way to get the drive to respond 
> again without rebooting?
>
> Larry Richardson
>
Deffinitely check first if there's a CD in the drive and the drive is 
mounted (an icon of the CD on your desktop or by typing mount at the 
command prompt), if the drive is mounted, and you have an icon on your 
desktop, right click it and then select 'unmount voulme' or 'eject 
volume'... Then the drive door should open. On occasion you may get an 
error "Device or Resource busy", which leads me to ask a question myself 
to the list: How can you track down what process has locked the CD Rom 
drive, when you have nothing opened showing its contents, nor a VT cd'ed 
to it?!?!