can't detect cdrom

[Gozar]

try running:
lsof <cdrom mount point>

Then it should say what's keeping it busy!

[drg55]

Ok, I'll try that, as it was I logged out after posting the message, then logged back in and could mount and unmount.

I got some message with 00 in it which I saw in a previous post about faulty terminals.

Also when I installed the message bar went over 100% when copying to hd, so perhaps that plays a part.

David.

[drg55]

Its working again today, I've been using linux since 98, you learn something every day. I think one thing would help linux is a brief orientation to whats under the hood, these useful little command line utilities. There's another one which is an undelete utility, trouble is I've forgotten what the command is. I'm sure it is in knoppix, I deleted a secondary partition on my laptop and lost the logicals attached to it... I had everything backed up except one directory and have managed to reconstruct most of the files from that.
Thanks again.
David.

root@Tbird:/home/drg# lsof /mnt/auto/cdrom
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
kdeinit 1064 drg 128r DIR 11,0 2048 233472 /mnt/auto/cdrom