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. -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net <CyberLeo@CyberLeo.Net> Furry Peace! - http://wwww.fur.com/peace/
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