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From: Austin Gonyou <austin@digitalroadkill.net>
To: Hank Leininger <hlein@progressive-comp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Locking CD tray w/o opening device
Date: 11 Jun 2002 00:00:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1023771645.1519.3.camel@UberGeek> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200206110328.g5B3SgL08447@marc2.theaimsgroup.com>

You could echo "1" >/proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock

If you do this, even when a cd is *not* in the drive it will be locked.
For information like this, it might be best to open xchat, and head to
openprojects.net and join #linuxhelp. This is a good question, just
perhaps  not right for the lkml?

:)


On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 22:28, Hank Leininger wrote:
> On 2002-06-11, Nathan Neulinger <nneul@umr.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Is there any straightforward way of disabling the buttons on the CD and
> > locking all the time? I'm not averse to an ugly hack to 2.4.18+ source
> > if necessary.
> 
> I'm not sure exactly what you mean.  If there is a CD in the drive and
> mounted, the eject button should be software-locked.  Do you mean that this
> does not happen for you?  ...As long as it does, a stupid workaround would
> be "leave a CD in the drive mounted all the time".

-- 
Austin Gonyou <austin@digitalroadkill.net>

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-11  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-11  3:28 Locking CD tray w/o opening device Hank Leininger
2002-06-11  5:00 ` Austin Gonyou [this message]
2002-06-13 20:05   ` Jim Nelson
2002-06-14  5:45     ` Jens Axboe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-11  2:53 Nathan Neulinger
2002-06-11  3:20 ` Erik Andersen
2002-06-11 10:25 ` Andreas Roedl

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