Can't eject CD/DVD after warm reboot?

H. Kurth Bemis kurth at kurthbemis.com
Thu Aug 27 13:38:31 EDT 2009


On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 13:10 -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> 
> >> Is there some trick (maybe some kernel commandline option or some program
> >> executed during shutdown) that will leave the drive willing to eject the
> >> media ("unlock" it?)  without us having to power-cycle these machines?
> >
> >Why won't the paperclip trick (manual release) won't work?
> 
> Because that would give the customers an even worse impression than they
> get from just having to power-cycle the fscking things...   >-/
> 
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oh.  I see now.  Sorry to hear customers are involved. :P

Good luck!
~k



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