From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 1 22:53:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3280937B401 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 22:53:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp-out.comcast.net [24.153.64.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC4043FBD for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 22:53:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsam@trini0.org) Received: from hivemind.trini0.org (bgp626680bgs.brick201.nj.comcast.net [68.39.132.244]) by mtaout10.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HCP00ET2F4IT8@mtaout10.icomcast.net> for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2003 01:53:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from trini0.org (gladiator.trini0.org [192.168.0.3]) by hivemind.trini0.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 591D8386; Wed, 02 Apr 2003 01:53:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 01:53:08 -0500 From: Gerard Samuel In-reply-to: <20030401191552.GA8848@glue.umd.edu> To: Andrew Arensburger Message-id: <3E8A88D4.9090209@trini0.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030401 References: <3E89C1C4.1050204@trini0.org> <20030401191552.GA8848@glue.umd.edu> cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Unlocking CDROM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 06:53:11 -0000 Andrew Arensburger wrote: >On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:43:48AM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote: > > >>and I mounted an ata cdrom via mount, viewed the disk, got out of the >>/cdrom directory, and issued unmount /cdrom. >>Via df, it is no longer mounted. >>But Im unable to eject the CD from the front panel. I remember that >>there was an eject command for scsi cdroms, but >>not sure if they exist for ata cdroms. >> >>What can be done to unlock the drive? >> >> > > cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0c eject > >(I think it's "-f"; I don't have a FreeBSD machine handy.) However, if >you can't eject it with the "eject" button, then I don't think >'cdcontrol' will work. > > > Thanks