Giving up on scratched CDs and ejecting mounted CDs

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:18:48PM +0530, Pankaj kaushal wrote:
> Found an interesting question on my local mailing list. I have also
> encountered the same, why does pressing the eject button on a cdrom
> drive not work like taking out a usb flash disk? Being a read only
> device only makes it much simpler to achive this, does it not?

Not all CD-like devices are read-only these days, but perhaps this is worth
an experiment.  Perhaps someone could do some tests with unlocking the CD
tray and see what the effects are.

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 - mdz