Open the cdrom via command line and/or program

[Bruce Regittko_1]

Hi,

I seem to remember a thread awhile back that concerned opening the cdrom drive via a program and/or a command. I've spent a lot of time seaching for this thread and can't find it. I have a student that was asking about this and said, "Oh yea! I know where I can find the answer..." but so far I haven't had any luck. Thanks,

--Bruce

[Patrick Wallek]

This is about to drive me crazy!!!!

I know the thread your are talking about Bruce, but I can NOT find the thing. I've tried a bunch of different searches, but still not the correct one.

I'll keep hunting.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Bruce:

For the life of me I can't find this with the SEARCH mechanism. I absolutely remember this one -- it even had some humor about being cut by the flying CD.

I don't have a high degree of confidence in the SEARCH lately what with problems I and others have reported.

I am continuing the quest.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

I FOUND IT!!!! FINALLY!!!! On page 30 of the HP-UX forum history list.

Here's the URL: http://forums.itrc.hp.com:80/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xb58037f45ef7d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

The above thread also references another thread that has a Perl (?) script that is supposed to work.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hello Bruce & Patrick:

Well done Patrick!!!

I wonder why none of us could find a collection of keywords and/or phrases that would trigger the SEARCH to find this. This reinforces my feeling that there is still something intrinsically broken in the ITRC search.

...JRF...

[Patrick Wallek]

I agree with you about the search being broken, James. I tried at least a dozen, maybe 2 dozen, combinations of words in the search, including 'eject cdrom' which is the subject of that thread, and it never came up. How frustrating!!!!!

I got lucky finding it though, I admit. I just started going through the history pages, skipping ahead by 5s. Fortunately I didn't have to go through all 30 pages. That would have been painful.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi guys!

I've linked this discussion with some additional commentary into Laurent's "report Forum's Issues":

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xf86bdfe5920fd5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

I too had tried various search forms involving the words "cdrom" and "eject" as I remembered "eject" as a 'key'. Interestingly, I had also tried "buzz" and "saw"!

With warm regards, Jim.

...JRF...

[Dave Wherry]

I couldn't agree more about the search engine. There was a recent thread about a memory leak in Oracle 8.1.7. I searched on 8.1.7 thinking that would be sort of unique. No hits. I can not find that thread with any search.
There was another thread posted by Shannon Petry concerning the HP Experts Presents series. As far as I can find, it is just gone. Disappeared. Nothing I search on turns up any thing there.
Sometimes I think it's the search engine and sometimes I think threads get deleted.

[Bruce Regittko_1]

Thanks to everyone that searched. The student was very grateful.

I also agree that the search engine is less than optimal but I have usually been able to find a particular thread. The fact that my name is (probably) unique helps but not this time. It used to be that the 50 hit maximum was the biggest annoyance for me but not finding threads is considerably worse.

Thanks again,

--Bruce

[Chris Calabrese]

Well, the following should physically do the drawer open.

mt offl /dev/dsk/

Might need to umount /cdrom first, though.

And yes I agree, usability of this type of stuff in HP-UX is pretty bad compared to Linux and Solaris.