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- From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Preventing Optical Disc Ejection
- Message-ID: <18109@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 22:13:13 GMT
- References: <1jq0lqINN15h@calvin.usc.edu> <1js071INN4gk@menudo.uh.edu>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM
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- In article <1js071INN4gk@menudo.uh.edu> sears@uh.edu writes:
- >Yes. Have unix mount the drive during the boot process. You can do this
- >by placing the proper information about the disk in the file /etc/fstab.
- >Please see an earlier article "Re: hard drive mounting" that I just
- >posted. It should also apply to Optical disks.
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- This is good only from the logical standpoint. All it takes is a long, thin
- object and the OD can be made to eject physically. Same goes for CD ROMs,
- which I found out much to my dismay (the NeXT gets *really* *confused* when
- you eject a disk without telling it). Plugging the appropriate hole/button
- with some key-based removable object is the only way I can think of to do
- that. Either that or something similar to fire alarms -- you can pull it,
- but you get sprayed with lots o' nasty white stuff too. <evil grin>
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- >Paul S. Sears
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- Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
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