Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 02:40:46 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: eject Message-ID: <20000726024046.A19499@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20000725172826.C9956@manatee.mammalia.org>; from rjoseph@mammalia.org on Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 05:28:26PM -0700 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> <20000725172826.C9956@manatee.mammalia.org>
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 05:28:26PM -0700, R Joseph Wright wrote: > 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. It works fine for me. (Using 4.0-stable as of late May. Worked fine with 3.4 also.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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