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Date:      Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:57:07 -0600
From:      CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net>
To:        Olivier Nicole <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Eject CD
Message-ID:  <4B8AF4C3.30204@cyberleo.net>
In-Reply-To: <4B8A5131.2090503@infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <201002280501.o1S51mrT095582@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <4B8A5131.2090503@infracaninophile.co.uk>

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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 28/02/2010 05:01:48, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> 
>> What in a standard installation of FreeBSD, on a server running only
>> MySQL and Postgress, could cause the CD tray to open by itself from
>> time to time?
> 
> Dodgy hardware?  If the manual eject button is a bit sticky, it could
> have that effect.  Seems the most likely explanation to me.
> 
> Otherwise, you'ld have to send a specific command to the device to make
> it open up -- something that would be pretty unlikely to happen
> randomly.  Unless you're running any applications that understand how to
> make the CD eject?  Something along the lines of
> camcontrol/atacontrol/cdcontrol?  Perhaps hald/dbus -- not that there's
> any reason to run those on a dedicated DB server?

I had a 4x CD burner that liked to do that. I chalked it up to drive
hardware failure after the second time it ejected the tray during a disc
read, and launched the rapidly spinning CD across the room.

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