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Old 09-27-2003
Floppy , CDrom
We use
#eject cdrom
to eject the cdrom . Is there a way to "close" it after using that command ?

is there a command to eject floppy ?
Thanks
hitlermom
# 2  
Old 09-28-2003
Most if not all floppy drives require manual, mechanical depress of the eject button and there is no electronic means I know of.

On my Linux system,

eject -t /cdrom

closes the CDROM tray.
# 3  
Old 09-28-2003
Thanks for your reply , but your susggestion didn't work in Solaris 9 Smilie
hitlermom
# 4  
Old 09-28-2003
i dont have access to a solaris system, i would suggest searching google for the solaris man pages on eject.
# 5  
Old 09-28-2003
Yes, I believe -t is a Linux-specific option. That's why I said "on my Linux system".

If you have X Windows, fire up a CD player and see if the eject button closes the tray. Possibly not even.
# 6  
Old 09-29-2003
Computer to unmount in sun9
the cmd is in the shell just like bsd unix cmds


mount /cdrom
umount /cdrom
amicrawler2000
# 7  
Old 09-29-2003
sorry
I've seen this too. Solaris systems have a vol daemon and there's some
automounting being done, blah blah blah...
I have used filemgr to accomplish this in the past. I have, however,
had some experiences where a shutdown/manual eject/boot was the only
recourse.
Good luck,
Regards,
Amicrawl
amicrawler2000
 
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