We've had a CDIOCEJECT ioctl `forever'. Several drivers support
it, such as cd, acd, and wfd. However, there are other drivers
that support removable media but do not support CDIOCEJECT: da
and sa.
Likewise we have CDIOCCLOSE which should cause a device to load
its media.
I want to add these i
[I think this thread belongs only on -current for the moment. Please
followup there.]
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:44:47PM -0700, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> For what it's worth, there's a port, ports/sysutils/eject, which is made
> to do this. I'm not one to deny a simple feature in the
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Wes Peters wrote:
> Greg Lehey wrote:
> >
> > What do people think about adding a -e option to umount(8) to eject a
> > removable medium where possible?
>
> Yes!
For what it's worth, there's a port, ports/sysutils/eject, which is made
to do this. I'm not one to deny a sim
Greg Lehey wrote:
>
> What do people think about adding a -e option to umount(8) to eject a
> removable medium where possible?
Yes!
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> Hmm. If SCSI drives are anything like ATAPI drives (and here I confess I
> haven't checked), the first I/O after the eject button is pressed will
> come back with a marker (eg. check condition) with sense information that
> indicates that a user eject was requested.
The page at
htt
Marc van Woerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > SGIs and SUNs use an 'eject' command for CDs and DAT tapes.
> OpenBSD 2.6 uses 'mt' and 'eject'
> NetBSD 1.4 uses 'eject' as well.
# mt -f /dev/rsa0 offline
# camcontrol eject cd0
DES
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 01:28:27 MDT, "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote:
>
>In any case, if an error were returned, the only way you could get that
>to work would be to have the media daemon continually ping the drive with
>the mounted media, and then unmount it in response to the (likely) unit
>attention cond
On 19-Jun-00 Jacques A . Vidrine wrote:
> [trimmed cc: list, now including only -current]
>
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 11:54:51PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
>> Also speaking from my own experience I would have expected
>> something like this to be part of the system and would have
>> never eve
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On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 11:54:51PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Also speaking from my own experience I would have expected
> something like this to be part of the system and would have
> never even looked for a port.
And you'd find it, at least
It seems Mike Smith wrote:
> > That's a cool idea, but unfortunately, it won't work with any hardware I
> > know of.
> >
> > In order for that to work, the CDROM drive would have to generate an AEN
> > (Asynchronous Event Notification) and send it to the controller, which
> > would have to be cap
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 00:27:35 -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > That's a cool idea, but unfortunately, it won't work with any hardware I
> > know of.
> >
> > In order for that to work, the CDROM drive would have to generate an AEN
> > (Asynchronous Event Notification) and send it to the controller,
> That's a cool idea, but unfortunately, it won't work with any hardware I
> know of.
>
> In order for that to work, the CDROM drive would have to generate an AEN
> (Asynchronous Event Notification) and send it to the controller, which
> would have to be capable of functioning as a target as well
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 02:53:45 -0400, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Bob Bishop wrote:
>
> >What's special about mounted devices? I'd prefer to see an eject command
> >which attempts to unmount the device if it's mounted.
>
> What'd be really spiffy is if when I hit the eje
On 19-Jun-00 Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Bob Bishop wrote:
> ejected. I know nothing about what happens when I hit the eject button
> on a CDROM drive. Anyone care to speculate on if that's a reasonable
> thing to implement?
I think this sort of stuff should be handled b
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Bob Bishop wrote:
>What's special about mounted devices? I'd prefer to see an eject command
>which attempts to unmount the device if it's mounted.
What'd be really spiffy is if when I hit the eject button on my CDROM
drive that whatever scsi signal that event generates, was
At 16:02 -0700 18/6/00, Greg Lehey wrote:
>What do people think about adding a -e option to umount(8) to eject a
>removable medium where possible?
What's special about mounted devices? I'd prefer to see an eject command
which attempts to unmount the device if it's mounted.
--
Bob Bishop
Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Whether as a separate command or as part of umount this is
> certainly something worth having by default.
> In particular new users may be a while before they find
> ports/packages or will just end up in the questions list.
Well, you could have both. For example, you co
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:06:52 +, Charles Anderson wrote:
>/usr/ports/sysutils/eject
>
>On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 02:09:44AM +0200, Marc van Woerkom wrote:
>> > SGIs and SUNs use an 'eject' command for CDs and DAT tapes.
Whether as a separate command or as part of umount this is
certainly someth
/usr/ports/sysutils/eject
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 02:09:44AM +0200, Marc van Woerkom wrote:
> > SGIs and SUNs use an 'eject' command for CDs and DAT tapes.
>
> OpenBSD 2.6 uses 'mt' and 'eject'
> NetBSD 1.4 uses 'eject' as well.
>
>
>http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=eject&apropos=0
> SGIs and SUNs use an 'eject' command for CDs and DAT tapes.
OpenBSD 2.6 uses 'mt' and 'eject'
NetBSD 1.4 uses 'eject' as well.
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=eject&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+2.6&format=html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=eject&apropos=0&s
> What do people think about adding a -e option to umount(8) to eject a
> removable medium where possible?
SGIs and SUNs use an 'eject' command for CDs and DAT tapes.
Here are the manpages for comparison:
Irix 6.5:
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=man&fname
:What do people think about adding a -e option to umount(8) to eject a
:removable medium where possible?
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Sounds good!
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