Re: Poll about DVD drive behavior
On Thursday 16 January 2020 22:58:03 songbird wrote:
> Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > songbird wrote:
> >> it will sit there until i do something to it.
> >
> > Which vendor and model ?
> >
> >> i'm not actually sure if it will close when i shut down the system
> >> but i think it will close when i boot up.
> >
> > Closing at power up is normal. I'm not sure whether its the firmware
> > of the drive or of the main board which orders this.
> >
> >> i hate it when machines do things i don't want them to do.
> >
> > It is a strange feature. If i only could find any tangible
> > description. Best would be to find a (proprietary) SCSI command
> > which disables or enables it.
>
> ata-ASUS_DVD-E818AAT_a
>
> i tried things this morning to verify that my intuitions
> above were correct and they were.
>
> it will sit there with the tray open all day and when i
> shut down the machine.
>
> when booting up it closes it.
When the bios needs to know if it is supposed to boot from a cd, since it
can, it has to close the tray and see if theres a cd/dvd there to read.
100% normal IOW.
> i have no autorun stuff going on and no polling of
> cdrom/dvd devices that i know of.
>
>
> songbird (not sure this will go through with gmane
> change i made today
Seems to have worked just fine.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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