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From: dwhite@anshar.shadow.net (Don Whiteside)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CD-ROM & Zip Drive won't eject
Date: 30 Jun 1995 13:36:48 -0400
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Brian L Gottlieb (brian@beru.wustl.edu) wrote:
: I installed the 2.0.5R of FreeBSD a couple of weeks ago, and after
: getting basic stuff going (X, ppp, etc), I've moved on to my hardware.
: I have a Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM (3601, successor to 3501), and I have a
: DOS CD in there (Dark Forces in case you're wondering). I can get a
: directory of it using ls, and my drive gets recognized on boot, but
: the eject button on the drive doesn't open it up. Similarly, my Zip
: drive won't eject its contents.
CD ROM drives have a LOCK state to prevent the eject button from working.
(Well, they do if they have a non-mechanical eject mechanism, usually)
If you take the disc out while it's still mounted, you risk anything
from a minor barf to something much uglier if you then try to access it. I
don't know for sure, but I'd suspect that umount-ing the directory the
disc is mounted on will toggle the lock state. umount /cdrom-directory
should do the job.
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