Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:02:14 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> Cc: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: eject Message-ID: <397EE156.1F45AAC@mitre.org> References: <3.0.1.32.20000725145515.0080ee40@pop.mindspring.com> <397DE68E.7C276656@planetwe.com> <4.2.0.58.20000725152243.00a08100@mail-hub.optonline.net> <20000725170603.A9956@manatee.mammalia.org> <20000726021608.A19047@student.uu.se> <20000725172826.C9956@manatee.mammalia.org>
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R Joseph Wright wrote: > > FreeBSD does have that. man cdcontrol for more info. > > $ cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0c eject > That works. > > $ cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0c close > Hmmm..it doesn't work for me. CD-ROM drives vary in quality a lot. One of the most commonly unimplemented features (especially on old drives) is the "close" feature. I've always suspected the firmware was nearly the same one they used on old caddy based CD-ROM, where close doesn't make any sense. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre corperation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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