Doesn't eject - "eject: unable to eject" (but manual eject works)

[edrozenberg]

At the end of rips I get the following notice and the disk does not eject:

eject: unable to eject

But manual eject works fine:

$ eject /dev/sr0

My user is part of the cdrom group and I have no problems with ripping or disk access as a regular user.

My drive is a push-to-close model, Toshiba SuperMultiPA3761.

My software info, in case it's relevant:

• Slackware64 14.2+
• whipper-0.7.3
• cddb-py-1.4
• cdparanoia-III_10.2
• cdrdao-1.2.4
• libcddb-1.3.2
• libcdio-2.0.0
• libcdio-paranoia-10.2+0.94+2
• pycdio-2.0.0
• mutagen-1.42.0

[edrozenberg]

I believe the issue was temporary loss of connectivity to the drive - also caused the rip to be incomplete. Possible cause was not using both connectors on the USB Y-splitter cable. Perhaps the drive experienced a temporary loss of power/insufficient power.

Using both ends of the Y cable now, eject worked fine on a recent rip.

[jtl999]

I had a similar issue with a dodgy eSATA cable that kept causing CRC bus errors.