Unlocking CDROM

[Gerard Samuel]

Andrew Arensburger wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:43:48AM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote:
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>>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.
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>>What can be done to unlock the drive?
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>	cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0c eject
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>(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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Thanks