Re: weird problem with CD-drive eject
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 07:36, Nirmal Govind wrote:
> Hi.. I've started experiencing a weird problem with the Combo drive in my
> ibook.. for some reason, it keeps getting ejected.. I think the Shift key
> triggered it but once it starts, an eject "process" seems to be constantly
> running (I can see this with top, the PID keeps changing every second or
> so).. so even if I close the drive, it will eject in a few seconds on its
> own.. has anyone come across something like this? I'm not sure what triggered
> this behavior all of a sudden today cos I didn't have any trouble till now..
Does this persist over a reboot? If not, maybe the key that initiates
the eject (using something like acme, ikeyd, ... ?) was 'stuck', either
physically or due to the infamous kernel bug, and kept autorepeating?
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