Takes 3 tries to open CD tray in Ubuntu

[davidryder]

Have you tried

sudo eject

?

If that doesn't work, look in your /etc/fstab file for an entry like:

/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0

Post the entry here. Your drive may not be mounting correctly.

[timzak]

Here's mine:

/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0

Just to reiterate: when my drive is empty, and I want to open it to place a blank CD in to burn to, I hit the eject button on the drive. The drive light comes on, the drive sounds like it is trying to open, but it stays closed. I have to repeat this a few times (3-4?) before the drive finally opens. Once I place the CD in the drive and close it, it operates normally. My CD burns are always normal and at full speed.

If I boot into a DOS disk or enter the system BIOS, the drive always opens immediately on the first try.

[snowpine]

'sudo eject' opens drive #1.
When I press the button on drive #2, it makes noise and the light blinks, but it doesn't open. I have to press the eject button 3 or 4 times before drive #2 opens.

[mc4man]

@ timzak
just for curiosity what does either just plain eject or eject -s do?

[timzak]

@ timzak
just for curiosity what does either just plain eject or eject -s do?

Neither eject nor eject -s open the drive. Eject will cause the drive light to go on and sounds come from the drive as if it is trying to open, but it stays closed. After the 1st eject command, subsequent eject commands don't even cause the drive light to go on. To get the drive to open, I must manually press the eject button multiple times.

Thanks, I hope we can eventually get this sorted out.

Edit: by the way, sudo eject behaves just like eject and eject -s