Question

I tried using DeviceIoControl function (Win32 API function) to eject my CDROM drive, it works perfectly when my CDROM drive has no disk, but after inserting a disk in it, the Marshal.GetLastWin32Error() returned 32 (ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process), the driveHandle passed in the DeviceIoControl is created by CreateFile() function.

Could you please help me out? I like this way of manipulating the CD ROM related stuff, I can use winmm.dll to eject my CDROM but I think this way is worth to try.

OK, here is the code:

using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace DVD_ejector
{

    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        const int OPENEXISTING = 3;
        const int IOCTL_STORAGE_EJECT_MEDIA = 2967560;
        const uint GENERICREAD = 0x80000000;
        const int INVALID_HANDLE = -1;
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            DriveInfo[] drs = DriveInfo.GetDrives();
            List<DriveInfo> cdRoms = new List<DriveInfo>();
            foreach (DriveInfo dInfo in drs)
            {                
                if (dInfo.DriveType == DriveType.CDRom)
                {
                    cdRoms.Add(dInfo);                    
                }                                
            }
            comboBox1.DataSource = cdRoms;               
            comboBox1.DisplayMember = "Name";

            if (comboBox1.Items.Count > 0) comboBox1.SelectedIndex = 0;
            button1.Click += (sender, e) =>
            {
                Eject(@"\\.\" + ((DriveInfo)comboBox1.SelectedItem).Name[0]+":");
            };
        }
        [DllImport("kernel32", SetLastError=true)]
        static extern IntPtr CreateFile(string fileName, uint desiredAccess, uint shareMode, IntPtr attributes,uint creationDisposition, uint flagsAndAttribute, IntPtr fileTemplate);
        [DllImport("kernel32")]
        static extern int CloseHandle(IntPtr fileHandle);
        [DllImport("kernel32")]
        static extern bool DeviceIoControl(IntPtr driveHandle, int ctrlCode, IntPtr inBuffer, int inBufferSize, IntPtr outBuffer, int outBufferSize, ref int bytesReturned, IntPtr overlapped);
        int bytesReturned;
        private void Eject(string cdDrive)
        {
            IntPtr driveHandle = CreateFile(cdDrive, GENERICREAD, 0, IntPtr.Zero, OPENEXISTING, 0, IntPtr.Zero);
            try
            {
                if((int)driveHandle != INVALID_HANDLE) 
                   DeviceIoControl(driveHandle, IOCTL_STORAGE_EJECT_MEDIA, IntPtr.Zero, 0, IntPtr.Zero, 0, ref bytesReturned, IntPtr.Zero);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
            }
            finally
            {
                CloseHandle(driveHandle); 
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

As the error states, the device is being used by something else, but it’s failing on the CreateFile call instead of the DeviceIoControl, and your code is not correctly checking for the failure.

The reason you’re getting a sharing violation is because you’re trying to open the device exclusively which will fail if ANYTHING has tried to open it or a file on it, including anti virus, Explorer, Search indexer, etc.

This updated Eject function fixes the share mode and the error handling and now reports the errors in the correct places.

private void Eject(string cdDrive) {
    IntPtr driveHandle = new IntPtr(INVALID_HANDLE);
    try {
        // Open the device
        driveHandle = CreateFile(cdDrive, GENERICREAD, FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE | FILE_SHARE_DELETE, IntPtr.Zero, OPENEXISTING, 0, IntPtr.Zero);
        if ((int)driveHandle == INVALID_HANDLE) { throw new Win32Exception(); }

        // Try and eject
        bool ejected = DeviceIoControl(driveHandle, IOCTL_STORAGE_EJECT_MEDIA, IntPtr.Zero, 0, IntPtr.Zero, 0, ref bytesReturned, IntPtr.Zero);
        if (!ejected) { throw new Win32Exception(); }

    } catch (Exception ex) {
        MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);

    } finally {
        if ((int)driveHandle != INVALID_HANDLE) { CloseHandle(driveHandle); }
    }
}