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Date:      Thu, 29 May 1997 17:02:49 -0400
From:      Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To:        J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ZIP drive eject
Message-ID:  <19970529170249.26384@ct.picker.com>
In-Reply-To: <199705281716.OAA16552@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>; from Joao Carlos Mendes Luis on Wed, May 28, 1997 at 02:16:20PM -0300
References:  <199705281716.OAA16552@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>

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J Wunsch:
 |Joao Carlos Mendes Luis:
 | |  I noted that it's possible to eject a ZIP disk even when it's
 | |mounted.  I'm using an external ZIP, attached to a 1542 SCSI adapter.
 | |My kernel is a 2.2.1-R with a patch to recognize the ZIP as an "od"
 | |device.
 
 | | 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.

Is it possible to eject a ZIP via S/W when using the "sd" driver?

Randall Hopper



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