CD Drive Wont Open

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: CD Drive Wont Open
started by: fbillionaire

Posted by fbillionaire on June 22 2004,04:52

I have a problem on my old Gatway 300 166mhz system. Well when I go to media cd player or to load nes games from cd my cd drive wont open. I notice my cd drive wont open PERIOD while i run the program. But Cd drive is normal when DSL is not running. Whats up? Help me out guys

Posted by cbagger01 on June 22 2004,05:36

Typical Linux behavior is to lock the CDROM drive closed if the disk inside is "mounted" for reading.

To remove the disk, make sure that you are running an "Enhanced" desktop. Click on the Mount.app window in the lower right corner of your screen.
Use the arrow keys to scroll through the devices until CDROM is displayed.
Then push the button underneath it to "unmount" the disk.

Once the disk is unmounted, you should be able to use the eject button.

Also, you could then enter into an Xterminal window and type "eject /dev/cdrom" to automatically eject the disk.

Good Luck.

Posted by fbillionaire on June 22 2004,19:20

it said I didnt have permission to mount or unmount this device!

Posted by fbillionaire on June 22 2004,19:25

the code didnt work...said failed to mount!

Posted by cbagger01 on June 23 2004,01:41

OK, first things first:

You cannot unmount/remove the cdrom disk if you are using it to run DSL. The disk contains your in-use operating system.

However, this is possible if you load the entire contents of the DSL disk into your RAM by using the "toram" boot parameter (128MB+ RAM recommended) at the F2 bootup prompt:

dsl toram

Once you are up and running, you should be able to remove your disk from the drive. If you need to force the issue, try opening up an Xterminal window and type:

sudo su
umount /dev/cdrom
eject /dev/cdrom
exit
exit

Good Luck.