Re: CD Problem

From: Kevin & Theresa Miller (atftb_at_alaska.net)
Date: 01/02/04 

Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 07:12:04 GMT

Oddbjørn Hansen wrote:
> cc wrote:
>
>> I have recently installed SUSE 9.0 and am a newbie.
>> Both my CD Burner and my CD ROM work, they read CD's but when I put
>> a CD in it reads it fine but I cant take the CD out. Neither drawer
>> will open. I have tried this on numerous CD's so it cant be the disk.
>> Has anyone experienced this and if so how is it corrected?
>> Thanks
>> Charlie
>
>
> This is how things work in Linux (and other *nix'es). When you want to
> read a CD, it is 'mounted'. This is done automatically when you
> left-click on the CD-icon in KDE, for example. You will have to
> 'unmount' the CD to be able to get it out. One way of doing this is to
> right-click on the CD-icon and choose 'unmount' or 'eject'.

This was one of the things that bugged me about Linux at first but then I read
the reason for it: Linux is a multiuser OS by design, so to prevent someone from
removing media that someone else is using, it requires a little manual
intervention. Sure, most of us are using it as a desktop, single user system,
but the underpinnings are there. Once I understood the reason *why*, it became
a lot less bothersome.

Now if I could just figure out what hardware I really want and dump this dang
W98! Everytime I think I know, my Scot ancestery interferes. Sigh...

...Kevin 

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Kevin & Theresa Miller
Juneau, Alaska
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb

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