Manual Eject an CD Rom

[Deak]

Hey Folks. Does anyone know if there is a way to force open & eject the CD. I have a CD Rom that wont open up I have tried holding in on the Button & I even rebooted the server. AIX 4.3.2 is the Level of AIX I am on & its a 43p-15 machine. I think there was a command for tape drives something like offline or something. Does anyone have a trick I can try. Thanks for any Help in advance!

 

[bi]

I suspect that for some reason, the something on the CD is mounted. Do a df and see if something is mounted, then do a umount and the CD should open.

 

[Deak]

Hey Bi thanks for the response. I did a df & had seen the CD mounted. I was not able to unmount it. So I rebooted the server it still would not eject out. Once I rebooted it was not mounted any longer however it still wouldnt come out. I ended up useing the paper clip in the little emergancy hole which opened the Drive up. Now I am just curious if there is any kind of command?

 

[trifo]

Maybe it is automounted on boot. You can find out the process holding the filesystem using "fuser"

fuser -uc /cdrom (or the mount point of your cdrom)

then you can stop the process(es). Be careful with killing processes!

--Trifo

 

[aixmurderer]

If you or another user are in the mounted directory then the unmount will not work either.

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[franksoprano]

Deak,

I do not know of any commands under 4.3.3 to eject the cd-rom but on 5.2 I know you can do it.. You just need to make sure the cdromd is running and then you can do cdeject cd0 but that is under 5.2..

Has your cd-rom behaved the same way since you got the cd out of the drive??? I would think maybe there is something going on with the drive itself if it would not open even during the reboot which it should because nothing is controlling it at that point..

-F.Soprano