From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 3 07:53:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA24559 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 07:53:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA24511 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 07:53:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA07927; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 09:52:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 09:52:23 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Karsten Fleischer , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ejecting a zip medium Message-ID: <19981103095223.A7398@emsphone.com> References: <363F0336.1FDD6ADA@physik.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.3i In-Reply-To: <363F0336.1FDD6ADA@physik.tu-berlin.de>; from "Karsten Fleischer" on Tue Nov 3 14:20:54 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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