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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
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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.


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