Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Mar 2000 13:26:17 -0500 (EST) | From | Ricky Beam <> | Subject | Re: EEK! Able to eject mounted Zip Disk (2.3.46/2.2.13) |
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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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