Debian: The cdrom eject button has stopped working

I am using Debian (Mixed/Unstable), and the cdrom eject button appears to
have stopped working. The eject command does not work either.

eject /dev/cdrom

This just returns to a prompt, and the drive stays closed. It used to
work before when the drives all had /dev/hd* names. This must have happened
when the devices became renamed. The cdrom works fine otherwise, but I have
to use a special tool (made from a paperclip) to extract the discs now.

A system trace reveals:

open("/dev/sr0", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 3
ioctl(3, CDROMEJECT, 0x802) = -1 EIO (Input/output error)

My kernel is Linux version 2.6.39-2-486 (Debian 2.6.39-2), if that matters.

Has anybody else experienced this?

Mark.

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Mark Hobley
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