Re: [Sheflug] ejecting mounted cdroms...

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On 20 Feb 2001, Alex Hudson wrote:

> I would imagine, given that I've never seen a kernel option in make
> *config for this, that it's a source switch - rather like the
> 'reinitialise timer on animate' switch that I used to get my laptop
> clock back in order. So, if you get the vanilla kernel you don't get it
> switched on by default, but maybe many of the distributers (SuSE et al)
> do switch it on. I've never been able to do it with my machines, AFAIK.

It's more likely a hardware issue. A lot of drives (cheap and expensive,
new and old) just don't support every command there is. Yes, even ones
that are used a lot. The last time I had to write some SCSI code was not
much fun.


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