> A better instruction would be to umount /dev/cdrom, > since this will almost always be a symlink pointing to > your cdrom device. Far more systems use /dev/cdrom > for their cdrom devices than use /dev/hdd, because > this includes nearly everybody with /dev/hdd, > /dev/sdd, /dev/hd<someotherletter> and > /dev/sd<someotherletter> as the cdrom device.
that's great, but what if the problematic cd happens to be the second cd device? /dev/cdrom won't help if that's the case, so using /dev/<thedevice> is a better choice, IMHO, if you know the device you want to umount. -- dave wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED]