Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 13:25:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mtools eject CD? CD-R? Message-ID: <200210061125.g96BPmfJ035969@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20021005220335.A1551-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com>
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Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@video2video.com> wrote: > Is it possible to eject a (mounted or unmounted) CD or DVD from the command > line? Yes. Depending on whether it's SCSI or IDE, you can use camcontrol or cdcontrol. (cdcontrol works for SCSI drives, too, but only if the unit is ready, i.e. there is a CD in the drive. camcontrol always works.) For convenience, I've writte a small shell script called "eject". Just type "eject" and it will eject whatever it finds. http://www.secnetix.de/~olli/scripts/eject > Does a CD-R have to be specially mounted before using mkisofs or > burncd No. You can only mount filesystems. An empty CD-R does not contain a filesystem. burncd (or cdrdao or cdrecord) are used to put a filesystem on them. It's like newfs and filling the filesystem with data at the same time. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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