[nflug] Question about a process accessing my cdrom

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just an offshoot but do you have the "noauto" option in your fstab?

JJ Neff wrote:

>I know I asked this before but I can't seem to find any of my previosu
>postings.
>
>My dvdburner is /dev/hdc and it seems that when I use it (not sure if using it
>to burn or mounting it to read data is the culprit) it decided to keep getting
>accessed.  The drive works in all ways in my apps, but when I open it or type
>"eject cdrom" the tray opens and immediately slides closed.  I have to be quick
>popping in those DVD's!
>
>In dmesg I have a continuous stream of "cdrom:open failed" messages.  An fuser
>/dev/hdc, fuser /media/cdrom, fuser /dev/cdrom etc shows nothing.  
>
>Some ideas on how to find what is trying to open or close the cdrom would be
>helpful.  I disabled automount from the Gnome control panel and am using Debian
>testing 2.6.X kernel (with udev).
>
>I had this before and I believe only restarting was my option then.  I'm hoping
>to find a better way?  I'm assuming someone will ask what is in ps -ef but I am
>not at machine at the time, so please let me know what specifically may help.
>
>JJN
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