Unlocking CDROM
Andrew Arensburger
arensb+freebsd-questions at Glue.umd.edu
Tue Apr 1 11:15:55 PST 2003
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:43:48AM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote:
> and I mounted an ata cdrom via mount, viewed the disk, got out of the
> /cdrom directory, and issued unmount /cdrom.
> Via df, it is no longer mounted.
> But Im unable to eject the CD from the front panel. I remember that
> there was an eject command for scsi cdroms, but
> not sure if they exist for ata cdroms.
>
> What can be done to unlock the drive?
cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0c eject
(I think it's "-f"; I don't have a FreeBSD machine handy.) However, if
you can't eject it with the "eject" button, then I don't think
'cdcontrol' will work.
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Andrew Arensburger, Systems guy University of Maryland
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