From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 3 07:34:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA22418 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 07:33:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emmi.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (emmi.physik.TU-Berlin.DE [130.149.160.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA22412 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 07:33:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fleischi@physik.TU-Berlin.DE) Received: from cip5205.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (cip5205.physik.TU-Berlin.DE [130.149.161.228]) by emmi.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA21160; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 16:32:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from fleischi@physik.TU-Berlin.DE) Received: from localhost (fleischi@localhost) by cip5205.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA00417; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 16:32:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from fleischi@physik.TU-Berlin.DE) X-Authentication-Warning: cip5205.physik.TU-Berlin.DE: fleischi owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 16:32:55 +0100 (CET) From: Karsten Fleischer To: Antonio Bemfica cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ejecting a zip medium In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Antonio Bemfica wrote: > If you had to mount it in order to access it, you may have to unmount it > first in order to eject it (I have not used parallel port Zip drives > before, only SCSI - unless you unmount it first, not even the eject > button will work!). That wasn´t my particular problem. The eject button is working after unmounting. The problem is that we want to eject the zipdrive after unmounting it without pressing the button. Something like a software eject, simular to ejecting CD-ROMs with cdcontrol. But Thanks for your prompt answer Ciao ----------------------- Karsten Fleischer fleischi@physik.tu-berlin.de http://www.physik.tu-berlin.de/~fleischi ----------------------- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. Calvin & Hobbes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message