From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu May 29 10:21:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA26816 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 10:21:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA26810 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 10:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA12970; Thu, 29 May 1997 19:20:48 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA04765; Thu, 29 May 1997 18:58:22 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970529185822.ZU26528@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 18:58:22 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jonny@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis) Subject: Re: ZIP drive eject References: <19970529082747.DK34680@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705291633.NAA02476@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199705291633.NAA02476@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>; from Joao Carlos Mendes Luis on May 29, 1997 13:33:34 -0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > // This probably means your drive is ignoring the PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM > // REMOVAL command issued by the driver. (All our drivers do this.) > > I cannot manually eject it. Only computer generated eject commands > have this behaviour. Ah, understood. That's a bugfeature of the driver, copied from the CD-ROM driver. It would probably be a simple matter to fix it in od(4), but more complicated to fix it in cd(4). The various CD players basically rely on the misconception that they can eject a CD while the device is open. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)