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From: Ragnar <bowden@cs.odu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Gateway-2000's
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 06:14:50 -0500 (EST)
Organization: Old Dominion University
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On 17 Feb 1996, John Goerzen wrote:

> graphics left on the screen) and the CD-ROM driver for the Sony CDU-31A has
> a few annoyances (nothing serious.  Just don't ever forget to umount the
> CD-ROM before you hit the eject button -- otherwise you'll need to reboot
> before you can use your CD-ROM drive).

That is not just the sony, but panasonic, mitsumi, and scsi all have this 
same "bug", if you close the cdrom with the cd that you opened it with in 
the drive, it will generally recover(though no always)...that last 
sentence reads like a sledgehammer to the temple, but I am tired, go away.

Jamie

I spent yesterday thinking about the tomorrow that is today.