unmounting cdrom

From: Dennis J. Tuchler (dennis.tuchler_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 11/07/03 

Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 01:58:25 GMT

It often happens after mounting a cdrom and copying some material from it
to a directory of the hard drive, that my attempts at unmounting are
greeted with the error message that the cdrom device is busy. How do I
make the device "unbusy" so that I can unmount it?

Thanks

dj tuchler

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