Re: Cdrom Reset

[George E Sollish <gsollish%autogear.net@localhost>]

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Magnus Eriksson wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, George E Sollish wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to unlock or reset a cdrom from the command line?
>
> I was going to suggest either 'atactl' or 'scsictl' but it seems neither will 
> work for this.  Can you use the 'eject' command at all?
>
>
> > Any ideas?  Is this a 'feature' of having two 'cd' drives in one machine?
>
> I also have a DVD(-writer) on cd0 and a CD(-writer) on cd1, and can't recall 
> ever having that kind of problem, so I'd say the answer is "no".
>
>
> MAgnus

Further, I see that turning off the hal-daemon unlocks the drive.  So one 
is locking the other and I can probably live without hal.  Is it possible 
that the cd1 error is preventing hal from releasing the drive?

Thanks.

George E Sollish        Chief Engineer
                        Auto Gear Company