Subject: Re: To eject a CD...
From: Benjamin S Donley (bdonley@seas.upenn.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 18:59:00 MST
Yes, I've tried just pressing the button, which did nothing.
It wasn't mounted in the first place. I checked by trying to unmount it.
I think eject is supposed to try to unmount it all by itself anyway.
It's a beige G3 desktop, if that helps anyone...
Any new guesses?
- Ben
> use "umount" to unmount it first...
>
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Adam Price wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Benjamin S Donley wrote:
> >
> > > What am I doing wrong? I want to get eject that stupid MacOS 9 CD.
> >
> > Have you tried just pressing the button?
> >
> > >
> > > bdonley@unchosen 2 ~ % eject -v cdrom
> > > eject: device name is `cdrom'
> > > eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom'
> > > eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/hdc'
> > > eject: `/dev/hdc' is not mounted
> > > eject: `/dev/hdc' is not a mount point
> > > eject: `/dev/hdc' is a multipartition device
> > > eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using CD-ROM eject command
> > > eject: CD-ROM eject command failed
> > > eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using SCSI commands
> > > eject: SCSI eject failed
> > > eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using floppy eject command
> > > eject: floppy eject command failed
> > > eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using tape offline command
> > > eject: tape offline command failed
> > > eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument
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