YDL3 and iMac CDROM Drives

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Why does pushing it back in spell trouble.  The Yosemite G3s (blue and 
white) and the Yosemite and Sawtooth G4s both required one to push the 
drive in manually as you could not reach the open/close button when the 
drive was in the open position.  They also came about before Apple 
keyboards had eject keys.
On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 02:15  PM, Jeremy R. Gilby wrote:

> I'm curious as to how this group uses YDL to open and close the CDROM
> Drive in Linux.
>
> In mac, the keyboard performs this function.  However, in YDL, the 
> Eject
> Key is not recognized.
>
> I've been using the following commandline,
>
> eject /dev/CDROM
> (I coded this as a button in my YDL panel)
>
> But that only opens the drive.
> (I could "shove" the drive back in, but that just spells future
> mechanical failure)
>
> I've also used the CD Player Eject button, but it will not open if 
> there
> is no CD in the tray.
>
> Anyone else come up with a better workaround?
>
>
>
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