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Article #2282Re: Preventing Optical Disc Ejection
From: Mike Matthews
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:13
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:13
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In article <1js071INN4gk@menudo.uh.edu> sears@uh.edu writes: >Yes. Have unix mount the drive during the boot process. You can do this >by placing the proper information about the disk in the file /etc/fstab. >Please see an earlier article "Re: hard drive mounting" that I just >posted. It should also apply to Optical disks. This is good only from the logical standpoint. All it takes is a long, thin object and the OD can be made to eject physically. Same goes for CD ROMs, which I found out much to my dismay (the NeXT gets *really* *confused* when you eject a disk without telling it). Plugging the appropriate hole/button with some key-based removable object is the only way I can think of to do that. Either that or something similar to fire alarms -- you can pull it, but you get sprayed with lots o' nasty white stuff too. <evil grin> >Paul S. Sears ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) ------ To err is human, to moo bovine.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!umd5!oberon.umd.edu!matthews From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Preventing Optical Disc Ejection Message-ID: <18109@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 23 Jan 93 22:13:13 GMT References: <1jq0lqINN15h@calvin.usc.edu> <1js071INN4gk@menudo.uh.edu> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM Lines: 23