Re: [Sheflug] ejecting mounted cdroms...

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> Will Newton writes:
>  > How old is the drive?

Pretty old-ish... 16X... From dmesg:
hdc: BCD-16X 1997-03-25, ATAPI CDROM drive

Re: NO_DOOR_LOCKING - right, this macro is NOT defined in make *config,
you have to modify the code. And - all except 2.2.13 kernels are
downloaded from (a mirror of) kernel.org (is this what you call
'vanilla'?:-)).

Re: root / ordinary user console... Didn't check it at home. At work I've
got an older yet machine +CD-ROM:
hdb: HITACHI CDR-7730, ATAPI CDROM drive
(4X) - and this one doesn't allow you to open the door (2.2.18) whoever
mounted the CD and whoever is trying to open it... BTW, the CD is SO old,
that even "eject" doesn't work on it (with unmounted CD):-)

Still, I know it is weird, but can it depend on the distro (even
with vanilla kernel)? What distro's are you using. But - no, I am
contradicting myself - both 'my' machines have SuSE-7.0 (one of them was
installed from an eval disk though...).

..very strange...

Thanks
Guennadi

> Just for comparison to Guennadi's expected answer, I've got a <2 year
> old DVD-ROM drive and a couple of month old Yamaha CDRW (on the 2.4.1
> machine)
> The 2.2.18 also has a recent-ish cheap CDROM.
> 
> Baz.
> 
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
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