eject not working

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Fri Mar 17 20:09:05 UTC 2017


On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 20:39:55 +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 20:24:13 +0200 Heikki Lindholm <holindho at saunalahti.fi> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > eject says:
> > $ eject /dev/cd0
> > eject: Device not configured
> > 
> > Kind of irksome because there's no eject button that could be reached on 
> > the DVD drive without taking something apart. Is there an alternative? I 
> > think this happens only when the drive is empty. Eject works on Linux as 
> > expected.
> > 
> > (FreeBSD 11 / eject-1.5_4)
> 
> Try "cdcontrol eject".

Has cdcontrol been rewritten to use CAM/SCSI instead of ATAPI?

If not, try "camcontrol eject 0:0:0" (where 0:0:0 refers to the
optical drive; check "camcontrol devlist" to verify).


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