Re: (Child) Locking the CD tray in software

From: David Goodenough (david.goodenough_at_btconnect.com)
Date: 02/16/05

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:01:52 +0000

    On Wednesday 16 February 2005 18:01, Nazri Ramliy wrote:
    > Hi list.
    >
    > My 15 months old amuses himself by opening and closing the CDROM tray
    > on my box by pressing the eject button, waits for the tray to come
    > out, then pushes it back in. He does this over and over.
    >
    > I can do
    >
    > while true; do cdclose; done
    >
    > but this seems a bit of an overkill for this task.
    >
    > Anybody know of any cd tools to keep the tray closed, i.e. ignoring
    > the signal from the eject button?
    >
    >
    > Kind regards,
    >
    > Nazri Ramliy

    Open a file on the CD, and it will not eject. You do need to have a CD in
    the drive, and be careful that editors which load the content of files do not
    keep the file open.

    David 

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