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i have an annoying problem, being rather a newbie to linux. a message box ("Cannot eject the volume <drive name>") randomly pops up(drive name is always the same.). it might ...
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    random "cannot eject the volume <drive name>" error

    i have an annoying problem, being rather a newbie to linux.
    a message box ("Cannot eject the volume <drive name>") randomly pops up(drive name is always the same.). it might be helpful to know my drives configuration to solve this:
    i'm running a dual boot system (windows/debian).
    fdisk -l output:
    Code:
    Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x000e2648
    
       Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/sda1               1       35377   284165721    b  W95 FAT32
    /dev/sda2   *       35378       38761    27181980   83  Linux
    /dev/sda3           38762       38913     1220940    5  Extended
    /dev/sda5           38762       38913     1220908+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
    
    Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x6db030c2
    
       Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/hda1   *           1        9732    78172258+   7  HPFS/NTFS
    
    Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x8d399bc0
    
       Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/sdb1               1       60800   488375968+   7  HPFS/NTFS
    under windows, i named hda1 "WINDOWS". so this seems to be the starting point of the problem. it makes no difference if i mounted the volume or not. this drive is an ATA drive, don't know if this is important to know.

    i google'd the phrase "cannot eject the volume" but it seems that no one is out there having exactly my problem. any suggestions?

    thanks in advance.

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    You found amything by typing dmesg in terminal?

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    Post the contents of /etc/fstab file here.
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    okay, thanks for your replies.
    dmesg output:
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    [   70.682318] hdb: status error: error=0x00 { }
    [   70.682321] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
    [   70.682325] hdb: drive not ready for command
    [   70.682370] hdb: status error: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
    and this a hundrets or thousand times. but i don't know what it means if you need the whole output, pm me please.

    /etc/fstab:
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    # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
    #
    # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
    proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
    /dev/sda2       /               ext3    errors=remount-ro 0       1
    /dev/sda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
    /dev/hdb        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
    another possibly helpful information: the ATA harddisk is on the same ide port (don't know how to say in english) as the cdrom drive. but both are working fine. except for this annoying error message.

    regards, mulax

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    arghhh nothing changed every 60 seconds or so this message comes up.
    has anyone a solution?

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