Looking for something to do?

[Tom McLaughlin]

On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 00:15, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 23:27, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Ahh, I never knew it was in the Computer folder, which I thought it was 
> > supposed to be on the desktop. Now, it's there in the Computer folder and 
> > I am able to mount it, so it works! When, I mounted it by either click 
> > right (menu) -> mount or double click, then a new CD icon will appear in 
> > the desktop just like if I mount it by the command line. But, one major 
> > problem is that I can't umount it because there's no option to do that but 
> > there has an eject option in the right click menu. The eject doesn't work, 
> > I get the error following:
> > 
> > Failed to start command (Click on details) -> Failed to execute child 
> > process "eject" (No such file or directory)
> 
> Right, but it should unmount none-the-less.  I will fix the "eject"
> problem (i.e. remove the error, but we really don't have an eject
> command).
> 
> > 
> > After I clicked 'OK' from the error msg, then it will umount or the mount 
> > died by itself. Weird.
> 
> Right.  Linux has an eject command that will actually open the CD tray. 
> The closest we have the camcontrol command.  This, of course, only works
> with SCSI CD-ROMs.

What about cdcontrol?  I have ATAPICAM compiled into my kernel and
`cdcontrol -f /dev/cd0c eject` and `cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0c eject` both
eject the disk.  For some reason though the close option will only work
with acd0c though.

Tom