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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:09:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130108080940.48ff0e79@eve.adm.antarean.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201301072253.30360.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:53:19 +0000
Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday 07 Jan 2013 07:35:32 Dale wrote:
> 
> BTW, pressing the touch sensitive button on the laptop to eject the
> CD won't work, neither will typing eject in a terminal:
> 
> $ eject
> eject: tried to use `/mnt/cdrom' as device name but it is no block
> device eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'
> 
> So, eject is still looking for cdrom ...
> 
> Either all commands and legacy apps should update themselves, or I
> better follow Mark's suggestion?

Mick,

You can tell "eject" which device to eject by adding the device-name to
the command, eg:
# eject /dev/sr0

This also works with USB-drives/sticks :)

--
Joost


  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-08  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-05 19:53 [gentoo-user] 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore Mark Knecht
2013-01-05 20:36 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-01-05 20:46   ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-05 20:37 ` Randy Barlow
2013-01-05 20:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2013-01-05 23:00   ` David M. Fellows
2013-01-06 11:19   ` Mick
2013-01-06 15:55     ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-07  1:22       ` Dale
2013-01-07  1:44         ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-07  1:53           ` William Kenworthy
2013-01-07  2:06             ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-07  2:08             ` Dale
2013-01-07  2:29               ` Dale
2013-01-07  4:53                 ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-07  7:35                   ` Dale
2013-01-07 22:53                     ` Mick
2013-01-08  7:09                       ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2013-01-08  7:49                         ` Mick
2013-01-08 11:53                       ` Dale
2013-01-07 15:18         ` Grant Edwards
2013-01-07 17:37           ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-07 23:25             ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-08  1:05               ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-08  1:15                 ` Michael Mol
2013-01-08  6:42                   ` Mick
2013-01-08  9:21                 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-08 20:26                   ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-08 21:12                     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-08 21:31                       ` Michael Mol
2013-01-09  3:22                     ` Dale
2013-01-11 14:31                       ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-11 14:58                         ` Dale
2013-01-06  4:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale

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