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- From: jeffb@world.std.com (Jeffrey T Berntsen)
- Subject: SCSI Disk Eject (Was : Re: flopticals...)
- Message-ID: <Bxx2n8.199@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
- References: <fmlin.28ss@terapin.com> <1ed8u1INNhqb@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:52:19 GMT
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- toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
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- >fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:
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- >>1. Can the RamFAST floptical ROMs ( is it "i" or "j"? ) eject disks by issueing
- >>a SCSI eject command?
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- >SCSI has _no_ eject command (stupid but true). They do eject disks by using an
- >extension Insite came up with to the SCSI Start/Stop Device command, which is
- >not exactly kosher but I don't see as how they had much choice.
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- How do the CD drives do it? Is it an mfgr. specific command? Does SCSI-II
- have an eject command? (They standardized the audio command; they could have
- standardized eject too...) Does anyone really know?
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- Jeff Berntsen
- jeffb@world.std.com
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