On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:14:12AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > yup looks broken, but just to be sure, you are a member of group > floppy right? (so you have read-write permission to /dev/fd0)
Right. > > willing to do more tests. But I would appreciate advice on how to get > > around the ejection problem without rebooting. > > use clippy Probably I'm missing some context here. On being stabbed with a bent piece of wire, the machine pukes the diskette; but messages such as /dev/fd0: Device or resource busy occur when I try to do anything with the drive. There is empty input from `fuser /floppy' and `fuser /dev/fd0', and I don't see any suspects from `ls -R /var' or `ps ax'. -- John (MacPhail) .. .. .. .. .. .. References: \ & (Perl, C/C++)