YDL3 and iMac CDROM Drives

[Jeremy R. Gilby]

I grew up with those kind of drives also, especially my legacy CD
players.  However, from the looks of the hardware, the iMacs are not
built for that kind of manual assistance.  (It takes a lot of force to
encourage the servos to retract the tray)  I can only see that repeated
use of this method will slowly wear down the mechanical parts of this
aparatus.  (With the iMac iLamp, the keyboard is all you need to open
and close the drive)

After doing this once, I was hoping for a more automatic way.

the eject /dev/cdrom -t command looks like it might work.

On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 04:13, hotFusion wrote:
> 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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