On Thursday 16 January 2020 22:58:03 songbird wrote: > Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > songbird wrote: > >> it will sit there until i do something to it. > > > > Which vendor and model ? > > > >> i'm not actually sure if it will close when i shut down the system > >> but i think it will close when i boot up. > > > > Closing at power up is normal. I'm not sure whether its the firmware > > of the drive or of the main board which orders this. > > > >> i hate it when machines do things i don't want them to do. > > > > It is a strange feature. If i only could find any tangible > > description. Best would be to find a (proprietary) SCSI command > > which disables or enables it. > > ata-ASUS_DVD-E818AAT_a > > i tried things this morning to verify that my intuitions > above were correct and they were. > > it will sit there with the tray open all day and when i > shut down the machine. > > when booting up it closes it.
When the bios needs to know if it is supposed to boot from a cd, since it can, it has to close the tray and see if theres a cd/dvd there to read. 100% normal IOW. > i have no autorun stuff going on and no polling of > cdrom/dvd devices that i know of. > > > songbird (not sure this will go through with gmane > change i made today Seems to have worked just fine. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
