[CLUE-Tech] CDROM Tray won't open

[Timothy C. Klein]

* Randy Arabie (randy at arabie.org) wrote:
> my cdrom tray won't open.  not by pushing the button on front, nor using eject
> whith the device [/dev/scd0 or /cdrom].
> 
> any clues on why that might be.  i have two drives, one regular and another rw.
>  the rw one works, and this one used to...i have not made any hardware changes.
> 
> i have switched distro's, from debian to libranet, but the config is pretty much
> the same.  fwiw, i did get to open at least once and know it works.  i could
> mound a data disk and played a music cd.
> 
> i have had similar trouble before, but never really worked out why it didn't
> work and then did.

I could be crazy, but isn't the 'eject' command part of scsi?  Is this
and ide drive that sometimes may have been mounted as ide-scsi, and now
happens to be mounted as ide, so the eject command is ingored?

Who knows, it might be.

HTH,

Tim
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