Thanks, > > What in a standard installation of FreeBSD, on a server running only > > MySQL and Postgress, could cause the CD tray to open by itself from > > time to time? > > Dodgy hardware? If the manual eject button is a bit sticky, it could > have that effect. Seems the most likely explanation to me.
Sticky button, I don't think so, I must have used that CD drive twice, only to run FreeBSD installation CD. Faulty hardware? Possibly, it happens on both machines with tha mother board and never on others. > Otherwise, you'ld have to send a specific command to the device to make > it open up -- something that would be pretty unlikely to happen > randomly. Unless you're running any applications that understand how to > make the CD eject? Something along the lines of > camcontrol/atacontrol/cdcontrol? Perhaps hald/dbus -- not that there's > any reason to run those on a dedicated DB server? I am not running any of these, as far as I know, it could be an SCSI bus reset? But then it is hardware and back to the above explanation. Thanks anyway. Olivier _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"