[Scottish] button

[Lawrence Sweeney]

On 2003.06.13 16:34 "Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant" wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on my home system, when linux is booted, when i press the button on
> either
> of my CD/DVD drives, it doesn't react (doesn't open, anyway).
> I wondered if a tweak was possible so that the button
> 1. unmounts the filesystem, whatever it may be
> 2. opens the wee drawer
> maybe one of you has done it ?

Hi Elise,

have you tried using the  'eject' command.

If you have only 1 cd drive just typing

eject

should work. To get to my second cd/dvd drive, I use

eject /mnt/cdrom1

cheers

Lawrence