Comments on: Eject/Close CD or DVD media with shell command

By: Joe Wulf

Joe Wulf — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:23:22 +0000

The `eject -t` is a viable option for systems with electronically controlled media drives. Unfortnately, Dell 1950 and 2950 systems have simple physical/mechanical interlocks that work to eject the drive with the `eject` command, and/or pushing the drive open button. `-t` doesn’t work to close the drives on such systems.

R,
-Joe Wulf, RHCT, VCP, USN(RET)
Senior IA Engineer/ISSE
ProSync Technology Group

By: Ted King

Ted King — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:31:51 +0000

Thank you. My desktop now has a pair of application links – “Open_DVD” and “Close_DVD”. These replace what I was doing with “myComputer.desktop”.

By: ramin

ramin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:22:06 +0000

I want to eject CD Rom and the enter a CD into Cd rom .
but Linux( Fedora 11 ) not allow . please help me