Messages in this thread |  | | From | Wayne.Brown@altec ... | Date | Thu, 4 Jan 2001 12:59:28 -0600 | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-prerelease IDE CD-ROM problem |
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OK, mystery (partially) solved. I have the Gnome CD Player applet running in my panel. (Yeah, I know, if I'm running Gnome, I deserve whatever I get. :-) Anyway, the CD player can be added to the panel in two forms: a launcher that just launches the application window, and an applet that has controls which allow a CD to be played directly from the panel without opening a window. I recently switched from the first to the second variety. It turns out that this applet apparently grabs the device as soon as a CD is inserted (to identify the CD and, if necessary, go out on the Internet to find it in the CDDB database). It doesn't prevent a data CD from being mounted or unmounted, but in the most recent kernels, it _does_ prevent the CD drive tray from being unlocked after it's unmounted The only way to open the drive is to hit the "Eject" control on the applet itself. When I tried this yesterday, it hung and required a reboot every time. However, the new (Jan 4) version of prelease-diff fixed this so that the eject control works. Without this applet running, the CD drive behaves normally.
BTW, this isn't just a ThinkPad issue; my homebuilt Pentium MMX tower exhibits the same behavior.
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