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Re: Media Bay



On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:53:22PM +0300, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> I am sorry: I guess taht there is a misunderstanding.
> my laptop is a Dell Inspiron 7000k:
> the media bay allows to swap the CDROM reader (hardware)
> and the ZiP reader (hardware).
> 
> Under Window,
> we can swap the hardware without rebooting,
> I just wonder wether we can do the same under Linux:
> I guess we can, but I do not know how.
> 
> 
> Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:
> >eject will open a tray and eject -t will close a tray.  Did you unmount
> >the drive before trying to eject it?
> >
> 
> 
> 

All I have on my 8100, is the floppy (removeable) and that works with no
problems. Can't speak for the CD-ROM/RW or ZIP though, sorry. There is a
linux on dells mailing list, might try there. (don't have the url handy
for it, sorry)

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Jim Richardson
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