Users unable to eject CD-ROM

[mscim]

Non-root users are having problem ejecting the CD-ROM on my Sun Blade Solaris 8 workstation. Loading CD-ROM is not a problem because it is auto mount. But to eject, running a 'eject /cdrom/cdrom0' yeilds this message "/cdrom/cdrom0: Inappropriate ioctl for device". How do I let non-root users eject the CD that they loaded in?

 

[mrn]

you will need to unmount the file-system before you can eject it. Also make sure you are not still in the cdrom fs tree. --
| Mike Nixon
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[SamBones]

I think you just type: [tt]eject cdrom[/tt]

You can also force it with: [tt]eject -f cdrom[/tt]

I don't think you use [tt]/cdrom/cdrom0[/tt] because that's just the path where it gets mounted. The [tt]eject[/tt] command is looking for either the device or a device alias. That would either be something like [tt]/vol/dev/rdsk/c0t6d0[/tt] or [tt]cdrom[/tt].

Hope this helps.

 

[hronek]

If your cdrom is mounted to be shared to other machines then you will need to unshare your cdrom:
>unshare /cdrom/cdrom0

Even if you force the eject, if something is sharing it still will not eject.
Also keep in mind that some Solaris system take a while before you can mount a new CD on that system again.

 

[Annihilannic]

Type eject -n to see the device names it knows about.

Annihilannic.

 

[rvrprasad]

First stop vold process using command :
/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
Now manually eject the CD.
This should work.

Before inserting the CD again,
we are supposed to start vold process using :
/etc/init.d/volmgt start