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SubjectRe: EEK! Able to eject mounted Zip Disk (2.3.46/2.2.13)
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>> While true, I know of no utilities that will frame a scsi command to eject a
>> disk -- it wouldn't work with IDE devices (I said _I_D_E_ not _A_T_A_P_I_)
>> or propriatary interfaces. (The only thing I know about is my own creation
>> and it does work with SCSI and ATAPI devices.)
>
>I heard you loud and clear, but I am looking into how to parse the
>command. Also every ATA/IDE device that is not a true "harddisk" runs
>ATAPI.

I have a few (two "creative") IDE CD-ROM drives that are exceptions to that.
You can call them propietary, but they _are_ IDE devices. I've actually
never tried putting one of them in a linux machine. (They are part of
"The Archive" (tm) along with a few other oddities of (computer) nature.)

--Ricky



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