eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'

Sun Aug 31 23:31:46 UTC 2008

On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 00:19 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> I think the problem is not Linux specific.
> My machine has also got MS Windows, and MS Windows cannot also detect
> my burner. I suspect that the problem is caused by the fact that I did
> recently a BIOS update.
> 
> My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8I945PL-G and my burner is an IDE one.

Can the BIOS see the drive? Reboot and look for it under the BIOS boot
options (or just try booting from it using  Live CD). If it's not there
you may have either a bad drive or a connector problem.

poc