Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Oct 1998 08:53:49 -0600 (MDT) | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: Strange CD behaviour |
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On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Dave Swegen wrote:
> First of all I'd like to apologise if this is the wrong forum for this > mail. Secondly is that I am not a kernel hacker, I would merely like to > report some strange behaviour in the 2.1.125 kernel. > > Basically what happens is that I can press the eject button on my CD-ROM > drive and it will pop out, despite being mounted (I have checked this in > mtab while the caddy was out). However, the eject command does work as it > should, ie prints an error message. I would also like to mention that as > far as I remember this was not possible under previous kernels. > > The drive is a no-name standard ATAPI drive (Dysan is the manufacturers > name, FWIW). > > What I basically would like to know is if this is worth me spending more > time on testing, or if I should forget it. Also, if I should spend more > time on the problem, what sort of information would be of use? > > Thanks in advance > > Dave >
Hi Dave,
I believe what you have is a drive that is unable to lock its door when we ask it nicely to do so. I havn't had widespread reports of such problems, so I guess this is just something unique to your drive. My recomendation is to not push the button when the drive is mounted, and just leave it at that.
-Erik
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