From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 28 22:57:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C3441065672 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:57:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cyberleo@cyberleo.net) Received: from paka.cyberleo.net (paka.cyberleo.net [66.219.31.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 492EC8FC08 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:57:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.44.14] (h-74-2-96-2.chcgilgm.static.covad.net [74.2.96.2]) by paka.cyberleo.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 26D7F28416; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:57:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B8AF4C3.30204@cyberleo.net> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:57:07 -0600 From: CyberLeo Kitsana User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091109) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Nicole References: <201002280501.o1S51mrT095582@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <4B8A5131.2090503@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B8A5131.2090503@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Eject CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:57:09 -0000 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 Furry Peace! - http://wwww.fur.com/peace/