Since installation, I have never been able to open my CD/DVD drive. I can read from it fine if I reboot and put something in it before SUSE comes up and it works just fine in WinXP. I just cant find any way to open it while I am in SUSE. The button on the drive doesn’t work, and for example if I am trying to install something with YAST and it has the eject option, that doesn’t do anything either. Any ideas?
Try ‘eject’ command with verbose output
eject -v
For more options
eject -h
> eject -v
eject: using default device /dev/cdrom' eject: device name is /dev/cdrom’
eject: expanded name is /dev/cdrom' eject: /dev/cdrom’ is a link to /dev/sr0' eject: /dev/sr0’ is not mounted
eject: /dev/sr0' is not a mount point eject: /dev/sr0’ is not a multipartition device
eject: trying to eject /dev/sr0' using CD-ROM eject command eject: CD-ROM eject command failed eject: trying to eject /dev/sr0’ using SCSI commands
eject: SCSI eject failed
eject: trying to eject /dev/sr0' using floppy eject command eject: floppy eject command failed eject: trying to eject /dev/sr0’ using tape offline command
eject: tape offline command failed
eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
This mean anything to you guys? I’m relatively new to linux
I get
eject: using default device
/dev/cdrom' eject: device name is/dev/cdrom’
eject: expanded name is/dev/cdrom' eject:/dev/cdrom’ is a link to/dev/sr0' eject:/dev/sr0’ is not mounted
eject:/dev/sr0' is not a mount point eject:/dev/sr0’ is not a multipartition device
eject: trying to eject `/dev/sr0’ using CD-ROM eject command
eject: CD-ROM eject command succeeded
Not sure why the difference. Maybe try googling the last line of your output. Anyone else able to help here?
What does this command report?
/usr/sbin/hwinfo --cdrom