From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 26 11:21:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90F9937B50F for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 11:21:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.84.63]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000726182151.ORMB16423.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:21:51 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00921; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:21:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:21:49 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: R Joseph Wright Cc: Erik Trulsson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: eject Message-ID: <20000726192149.A239@parish> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000725172826.C9956@manatee.mammalia.org>; from rjoseph@mammalia.org on Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 05:28:26PM -0700 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 05:28:26PM -0700, R Joseph Wright wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 02:16:08AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 05:06:03PM -0700, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > > Speaking of ejecting cdroms, what about closing the drive using software? > > > Other OSes such as BeOs will close the door when the "play" button is > > > pressed on the cd player, for example. Why doesn't FreeBSD have that? > > > I've never seen it in Linux either, although it's been a while since I've > > > used Linux. > > > > 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. > Or me. xmcd on the other hand does close the tray (using the eject button). > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message