Re: How to lock an optical drive tray closed?

["Steve R. Hastings" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 22:32 +0100, Rene Herman wrote:
> On 07-11-07 09:19, Steve R. Hastings wrote:
> > However, in my tests, the drive still ejects the disk even when I use
> > the CDROM_LOCKDOOR IOCTL to lock it.
> 
> Works for me on a pata/sr driven CD-ROM and DVD. The description sort of 
> makes it sound like the ioctl is a toggle, so are you perhaps not passing 
> the 1/0 lock/unlock argument?

No, the cdrom.txt file was pretty clear and I followed the documentation
in there; I knew it's not a toggle.  I could post my code, but it's much
like yours.  Also, I compiled and ran your code with the same results as
my code (no error returned, also tray not locked).

I think I'll try uninstalling some kernel modules and see if that
changes my results.  (The application uses some proprietary modules, so
my kernel is tainted.)

Thank you for the advice.
-- 
Steve R. Hastings    "Vita est"
steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx    http://www.blarg.net/~steveha


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