The same goes with CD-ROM drives as well (overriding the eject button)... but I do remember once incident that I used a CD-ROM drive (a veeerryyy old 4x Samsung) which is not affected by this. Even though it's mounted, the tray could still be ejected. Hm... (weird)
I tried just now to 'hard-eject' a mounted disc, using the 'pinhole method' (a newer CD-ROM drive) but unfortunately... the drive won't cough out the disc. Hm... weird. I've been 'Googling' for such a utility, but I can't find any apps that does the task that Bert is looking for. But I guess... for CD-ROM drive, if it's mounted... then it won't cough it up. For floppies? Well... for "Old Skool" floppies. It'll be hard... since you could eject floppies whenever you want. :) Wala lang... :) -Teejay On Fri, 28 May 2004 14:40:51 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For Zip drives the situation is a little easier. Linux will override the > drive and prevent it from ejecting the medium until it has been properly > unmounted, as Windows does. Again, there's a pinhole on Zip drives that > will allow one to manually eject a disk if for some reason the normal > soft ejection scheme fails to work. So it is for all practical purposes > impossible to remove a mounted Zip disk under normal circumstances. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
