Re: Eject CD

["Chris Tillman" <tillman@voicetrak.com>]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:45:57PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> Looking through these lists I noted that one has to install the eject 
> package in order to open the CDRom drive door.  Well, I have it 
> installed and regardless I can't open it.
> 
> Here't the response:
> 
> eject /dev/cdrom
> eject: unable to find or open device for: '/dev/cdrom'
> 
> or
> 
> eject /cdrom
> eject: unable to open '/dev/cdrom'

You have to create /dev/cdrom for your machine. Since every machine
can be different, it is not created by the installation. Most times
for powerpcs it is /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc. For example, as root,

ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom

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