I am also having this problem. The drive in question is a Matsusushi
CD-RW and is the second drive on the IDE cable (the first is a DVD-ROM
drive). I'm afraid I don't have any more information about it right now
as I'm not using the machine in question.
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CDROM drive eject disc after randomly
I've had no problems with other OS' and have even managed to run Live
distros off this drive.
This seems to be a problem that has been popping up in various places so
I think it's unlikely to be a dirty lens problem
For reference, here's a link to a forum thread where a few people have
the same p
I've just tried this using different Live Distros (running from my DVD
drive) and have done a fresh install of Dapper.
SimplyMephis: audios CDs play fine
Breezy Live CD: audios CDs play fine
Dapper Live CD: audios CDs play fine
Dapper fresh install (no updates, no config, nothing): audio CDs eject
I've made some progress and got a CD to play... here's what I did:
tail -f /var/log/messages gives the following just after cd is ejected:
"Jun 20 17:52:22 localhost kernel: [17179920.66] cdrom: dropping to single
frame dma"
dmesg also reports:
"[17179920.66] cdrom: dropping to single fr
