Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 09:52:23 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Karsten Fleischer <fleischi@physik.tu-berlin.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ejecting a zip medium Message-ID: <19981103095223.A7398@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <363F0336.1FDD6ADA@physik.tu-berlin.de>; from "Karsten Fleischer" on Tue Nov 3 14:20:54 GMT 1998 References: <363F0336.1FDD6ADA@physik.tu-berlin.de>
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In the last episode (Nov 03), Karsten Fleischer said: > Hello! > > We are using the new FreeBSD 3.0 Release with a parallel port > Zip drive. Everything works fine, but we are looking for > a way to eject the Zip medium automatically. We tried to use > "cdcontrol -f /dev/da0 eject" (or /dev/da0s4) without result. > (cdcontrol status gives some messages). The question is whether > we make something wrong and there is another "built in" way > to eject a medium or if there is a external tool like ziptool > for Linux (ejecting and en/disable of the write protection), which > isnīt working with FreeBSD. cdcontrol is only for CD player devices. Try "camcontrol eject -n cd -u 1 -v", which is in the camcontrol manpage. camcontrol is the generic SCSI-device utility command, and you can do lots of other neat stuff with it. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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