ejecting an empty cd caddy
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I am a novice solaris user who recently purchased a sparc2 with an
external bootable cdrom drive (Toshiba xm-3501b). I attempted a very
basic test of the cdrom by inserting an empty cdrom caddy just to see if
it would accept the caddy and then eject when gave the appropriate
command in Solaris ("eject cdrom" if I am not mistaken). The caddy
however will not come out. When I type in the commnand I get the message
"no such file or directory". I tried "eject cdrom0" with the same
results (I am typing this from root). There is only 1 button on the
cdrom itself and that doesn't seem to have any effect either. I am out
of ideas. Does anyone out there know how to force the ejection of the
caddy from a cdrom with Solaris (or manually from the cdrom itself?)
Please let me know.
Mike Cooper
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Wolfgang Stief
Hi!
> command in Solaris ("eject cdrom" if I am not mistaken). The caddy
> however will not come out. When I type in the commnand I get the message
> "no such file or directory". I tried "eject cdrom0" with the same
Per default, Solaris runs the volume deamon vold. Whenever you insert a CD-ROM
(not only the empty caddy) the system mounts the CD automatically under
/cdrom/cdrom0. Once mounted, an "eject cdrom" (or even simply "eject") will work.
So, you don't have a CD in your caddy, so there won't be mounted anything, so in
Solaris' eyes there is nothing there to eject.
> results (I am typing this from root). There is only 1 button on the
> cdrom itself and that doesn't seem to have any effect either. I am out
> of ideas. Does anyone out there know how to force the ejection of the
> caddy from a cdrom with Solaris (or manually from the cdrom itself?)
Hmmm... I would try to shut down the Sun, so there is no OS control over the CD
drive. Now try to press the eject button on the CD. If this does't work, the drive
is somehow broken. Anyway, there should be a small hole somewhere on the front of
the drive which forces an eject. You will need a needle or something to insert to
this hole and press a small button in there.
Hope this helps.
wolfgang
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bid...@my-deja.com
release. If Toshiba built one of those little hole releases into this
cd-rom they sure hid it well. Thanks for your help though.
Mike Cooper
In article <uml0f8...@t-online.de>,
Doug McIntyre
>I am a novice solaris user who recently purchased a sparc2 with an
>external bootable cdrom drive (Toshiba xm-3501b). I attempted a very
>basic test of the cdrom by inserting an empty cdrom caddy just to see if
>it would accept the caddy and then eject when gave the appropriate
I'd suspect a bad CD-ROM drive. All my old Toshiba caddy drives
ejected the caddy when it detected it was empty.
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bid...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am a novice solaris user who recently purchased a sparc2 with an
> external bootable cdrom drive (Toshiba xm-3501b). I attempted a very
> basic test of the cdrom by inserting an empty cdrom caddy just to see if
> it would accept the caddy and then eject when gave the appropriate
> however will not come out. When I type in the commnand I get the message
> "no such file or directory". I tried "eject cdrom0" with the same
> cdrom itself and that doesn't seem to have any effect either. I am out
> of ideas. Does anyone out there know how to force the ejection of the
> caddy from a cdrom with Solaris (or manually from the cdrom itself?)
>
>
> Mike Cooper
>
> Before you buy.
A couple of suggestions come to mind. Try power-cycling the CDROM
drive with the eject button pushed. If that doesn't work, I believe
there is a way to strap the Toshibas so they ignore the eject button --
maybe that's the case with your drive.