Very slow response for `eject cd0' command

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

Hi,

I do see the problem on at least 3 of my amd64 machines where `eject
cd0' takes about 4 min to succeed ... Result does not change if there
is a disk in the drive.

[...NO DISK...]
root@lanfeust [~]# time eject cd0
eject cd0  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 4:01.71 total
[...INSERT DISK...]
root@lanfeust [~]# time eject cd0
eject cd0  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 4:04.66 total

Very same behaviour when loading media in the drive.

root@lanfeust [~]# time eject -l cd0
eject -l cd0  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 4:06.95 total

Not sure what's going on, but it does not seems to depend on
controller and/or disk drives ... The 3 machines does use different
ones.

Any idea ? Anyone else ?

Thanks.

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.