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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:12:17
Message-Id: 20130108080940.48ff0e79@eve.adm.antarean.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore by Mick
1 On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:53:19 +0000
2 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Monday 07 Jan 2013 07:35:32 Dale wrote:
5 >
6 > BTW, pressing the touch sensitive button on the laptop to eject the
7 > CD won't work, neither will typing eject in a terminal:
8 >
9 > $ eject
10 > eject: tried to use `/mnt/cdrom' as device name but it is no block
11 > device eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'
12 >
13 > So, eject is still looking for cdrom ...
14 >
15 > Either all commands and legacy apps should update themselves, or I
16 > better follow Mark's suggestion?
17
18 Mick,
19
20 You can tell "eject" which device to eject by adding the device-name to
21 the command, eg:
22 # eject /dev/sr0
23
24 This also works with USB-drives/sticks :)
25
26 --
27 Joost

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>