Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 18:58:22 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jonny@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis) Subject: Re: ZIP drive eject Message-ID: <19970529185822.ZU26528@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199705291633.NAA02476@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>; from Joao Carlos Mendes Luis on May 29, 1997 13:33:34 -0300 References: <19970529082747.DK34680@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705291633.NAA02476@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>
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As Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > // This probably means your drive is ignoring the PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM > // REMOVAL command issued by the driver. (All our drivers do this.) > > I cannot manually eject it. Only computer generated eject commands > have this behaviour. Ah, understood. That's a bugfeature of the driver, copied from the CD-ROM driver. It would probably be a simple matter to fix it in od(4), but more complicated to fix it in cd(4). The various CD players basically rely on the misconception that they can eject a CD while the device is open. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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