[H-GEN] 'unlocking' hung cdburner process

[Matthew Taylor]

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I've just managed to 'lock' up a cdburner process, I tried

ps -A | grep cdrecord

and

kill -9 xyz

where xyz was the pid for the 'hung' cdrecord process.

alas my cdburner is still 'hung'.

checking 'mounted' status confirmed the cd was not mounted. (not that it 
should have been).

I know there must be something else I should be checking but ??

any suggestions?

Mat.
notes on my system:
the cd-burner is an ide type (not scsi), I am running a fairly stock 
redhat 7.2 install using kernel 2.4.9, the redhat install configured the 
ide-scsi, ide-cd & cdrom modules which otherwise seem to work fine.


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