PowerMac G5 and FreeBSD 9.0-current: no disks?

Justin Hibbits chmeeedalf at gmail.com
Tue Jan 25 02:25:46 UTC 2011


On Jan 24, 2011, at 8:47 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:19:59 -0800
> Gary <gdriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hold down the left mouse button during power-on. Some drives in the
>> G5s have a barely reachable eject button on the front if you pull  
>> down
>> the drive slot door. One of mine actually had the physical eject
>> button removed so it's a bit of a hassle if I want to swap install
>> discs.
>
> I should have been more specific; I want to open the cd drive from  
> within FreeBSD.
> (I knew about that mouse button down)

I always just use 'cdcontrol eject' for that.

- Justin


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