Rob, Possibly a bit late now, but why not get either a
a) usb CD drive b) slot-loading CD drive (where you push the CD into a slot, like in a car stereo, rather than a tray-based drive. Regards, Andy Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > Not sure if anyone could help on this one... > > My youngest daughter who is nearly 3 is in the habit of messing around > with my PC when I'm at work. At first she did things like hit the reset > button or power button and now it's more of ejecting my DVD drive. > > Unfortunately the last time she did this she also lent on the drive and > physically broke the mechanism. Now I've just got a new drive but and > I'd rather avoid it happening again (drives are cheap, but it's an > inconvenience having to buy a new one). > > As a temporary measure I've put a disc in the drive, made sure it's > mounted and then gone into the disc in a terminal (which when the eject > button is pressed it says that the disc is in use). What I'd like to do > though is disable the eject button by software. > > I did a google search and found this... > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-1190847.html#1190847 > > As great as it is though it doesn't seem to work (despite altering the > code to point to /dev/scd0 rather than /dev/hdc). > > So I wondered if anyone had got any other ideas on how to do this? > > I'd probably forget to keep a disc mounted in the drive knowing my luck > so it would be handy to say have a command line utility to lock the > drive say when the screen saver is active? > > (I presume it's possible to send some sort of command to the drive to do > this?). > > Rob > > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
