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#! rnews 1559 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!stepsun.uni-kl.de!sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de!weber From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT]) Subject: Re: CD-ROM & Zip Drive won't eject Message-ID: <1995Jul8.155138.20117@rhrk.uni-kl.de> Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany References: <3sv1d9$duh@ecl.wustl.edu> <3t1cng$am8@anshar.shadow.net> Date: Sat, 8 Jul 1995 15:51:38 GMT Lines: 24 Hello, dwhite@anshar.shadow.net (Don Whiteside) writes: >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. On a related topic, is there a command or option to get the drive actually eject the media? As far as I know some (most?) cdrom drives have this capability. Regards Christoph Weber-Fahr -- Christoph Weber-Fahr | E-Mail: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de Universitaet Kaiserslautern, KIT | S-Mail: Postfach 3049 Tel. 0631/205-3391 | D-67653 Kaiserslautern -------------------------- My personal opinion only ---------------------