CD-Rom ejection

[R. David Whitlock]

btw, people who publicly insult linux on linux mailing lists get lousier
tech support for silly questions they should look at man pages for... =-)

Perhaps linux people _LIKE_ their OS less "intuitive" (a euphemism for
"oblique, buggy, and untweakable").  There are reasons for most things
like this in linux, and there are packages you can install, if you are so
inclined, to get more "windows-like" behaviour...  But I like being able
to explicitly fiddle with some of the intermediate steps in mounting media
that M$ products don't let you do.  Autorun is evil.  Automounting is
debatable, depending on your needs.

-David

	      "All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world
   		          So there was only one thing that I could do
 		        Was ding a ding-dang my dang a long ling-long..."
 		         	     -Ministry, Jesus Built My Hotrod

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, 'The Pho Man' Doug McLean wrote:

> Ah, I see what i did wrong.  Oy, linux just isn't intuitive like Windows
> (Doug ducks to avoid a flurry of flame messages).
> 
> --Doug "The Pho Man" McLean
> 
> "People who want to share their religious views with you almost never
> want you to share yours with them."                 - Dave Barry
> 
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, R. David Whitlock wrote:
> 
> > how are you trying to eject, by pressing the button on the front of the
> > drive, or using some sort of software-control, like the eject button on
> > xmms?  Is the CD still mounted?  If so, you have to unmount before you can
> > eject, unless you have SuperMount (a mandrake addition) installed.
> > 
> > -David
> > 
> > 	      "All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world
> >    		          So there was only one thing that I could do
> >  		        Was ding a ding-dang my dang a long ling-long..."
> >  		         	     -Ministry, Jesus Built My Hotrod
> > 
> > On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, 'The Pho Man' Doug McLean wrote:
> > 
> > > I noticed that I everytime I turn on my linux box, it will only allow me
> > > to eject cds once.  If I try anytime after that, it says that the
> > > dev/CDEJECT is currently busy.  My pc partition never has a problem, and
> > > when I am booting up, it works too.  Anyone have any ideas?
> > > 
> > > --Doug "The Pho Man" McLean
> > > 
> > > "People who want to share their religious views with you almost never
> > > want you to share yours with them."                 - Dave Barry
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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