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From: brian@beru.wustl.edu (Brian L Gottlieb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: CD-ROM & Zip Drive won't eject
Date: 29 Jun 1995 20:11:21 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
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I installed the 2.0.5R of FreeBSD a couple of weeks ago, and after
getting basic stuff going (X, ppp, etc), I've moved on to my hardware.
I have a Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM (3601, successor to 3501), and I have a
DOS CD in there (Dark Forces in case you're wondering). I can get a
directory of it using ls, and my drive gets recognized on boot, but
the eject button on the drive doesn't open it up. Similarly, my Zip
drive won't eject its contents.
First question: What do I need to do to make these disks ejectable?
Second question: Has anyone figured out how to get a Zip disk
formatted under FreeBSD? I get errors when I try to disklabel it. I
can make a note of the errors and post/mail them later if I get a
response.
Thanks,
brian
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