Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:28:26 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: eject Message-ID: <20000725172826.C9956@manatee.mammalia.org> In-Reply-To: <20000726021608.A19047@student.uu.se>; from ertr1013@student.uu.se on Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 02:16:08AM %2B0200 References: <3.0.1.32.20000725145515.0080ee40@pop.mindspring.com> <397DE68E.7C276656@planetwe.com> <4.2.0.58.20000725152243.00a08100@mail-hub.optonline.net> <20000725170603.A9956@manatee.mammalia.org> <20000726021608.A19047@student.uu.se>
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On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 02:16:08AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 05:06:03PM -0700, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > Speaking of ejecting cdroms, what about closing the drive using software? > > Other OSes such as BeOs will close the door when the "play" button is > > pressed on the cd player, for example. Why doesn't FreeBSD have that? > > I've never seen it in Linux either, although it's been a while since I've > > used Linux. > > FreeBSD does have that. man cdcontrol for more info. $ cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0c eject That works. $ cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0c close Hmmm..it doesn't work for me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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