[CLUE-Tech] CDROM Tray won't open

[Randy Arabie]

Quoting Dave Price <dp_kinaole at yahoo.com>:

> On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 10:46:02PM -0800, Randy Arabie wrote:
> > my cdrom tray won't open.  not by pushing the button on front, nor using
> eject
> > whith the device [/dev/scd0 or /cdrom].
> > 
> > any clues on why that might be.  i have two drives, one regular and another
> rw.
> >  the rw one works, and this one used to...i have not made any hardware
> changes.
> > 
> Since you have changed distros, you might check auotomount settings, I
> had this problem with mandrake a while back - disabling automount fixed
> it.

 /etc/fstab has the noauto option set for both the cdrw and cdrom drives.

I'll crack the case open tonight and poke around.  Maybe this will turn out to
be the excuse I need to replace the cdrom with a dvd ;-)
-- 
Allons Rouler!

Randy
http://www.arabie.org/