Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:01:33 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Bug: remounting CD-ROM drives does not lock/unlock drive |
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On Sun, Aug 27 2000, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > > options cdrom lockdoor=0 > > This has the same effect as doing a 'setcd -l0' before mounting the CD-ROM > disk. But this way, it is never locked. I need to have the CD-ROM drive > locked during normal operation (ejecting the root filesystem is not very > nice :) ), but unlocked immediately before the reboot is done. > I was unable to find a way to unlock the tray *after* the disk has been > mounted. Is there any or do I need to patch the kernel for the Gibraltar > project (other bootable CD-ROM projects will definitely need this too) ?
lockdoor=0 will indeed keep the tray unlocked, unless explicityly locked. And I think this is what Erik means -- don't automatically lock the door, but do it from your init scripts. Then doing an unlock on ro remount is simple.
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