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« on: March 13, 2011, 11:59:50 pm » |
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Every now and then the (empty) CDrom tray on my IBM T2 decides to pop open. I think it may be haunted. I close it and then 10 or 20 minutes later, for no good reason, it pops open again. I have tried to notice a pattern, but best I can tell, there is none. Has a mind of its own.
Any suggestions? (Prayer doesn't work).
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« Last Edit: April 17, 2011, 04:04:33 pm by sledgehammer »
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« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2011, 04:12:25 am » |
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You could try running a Live OS and see if it does the same thing. Either run it from a USB stick, or with a "toram" option so the CDROM is not locked.
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« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2011, 01:59:51 am » |
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There is an eject command in /usr/bin and/or /usr/local/bin. May be that is being
triggered somehow. Try to make it non-executable and hope and pray if it stops.
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nitehawk
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« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2011, 10:20:42 am » |
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I have the opposite problem on one of my P3 machines. The darn thing won't open most of the time. I have to use an un-rolled paperclip in that "manual" tiny little hole under the tray. Gremlins in the machines, I tell you!
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sledgehammer
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« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2011, 01:11:12 pm » |
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I had trouble running a live OS. Probably a bad CD as I carry them around in my briefcase.
Eject on my system in in /usr/bin. I changed group and others from "read only" to "none." Perhaps that will help. It (eject) still works though from the non-root (and root) command line. It hasn't popped open in the last few minutes. Too early to mark thread solved, but thanks to all for the suggestions.
John
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sledgehammer
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« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2011, 01:18:12 pm » |
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Popped open about a minute after last post. Changed permissions to root "read only." Also, though I had blown out the drive when this first started happening, this time I cleaned it (the inside edges) with a paperclip.
Who knows. Will report.
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« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2011, 09:08:56 pm » |
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Before getting rm-r's post, I reinstalled cdrecord and kb3 and the various tools (cdrkit and cdrtools) and used the default k3bsetup.
It hasn't popped open for a few hours.
John
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sledgehammer
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« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2011, 11:59:45 pm » |
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Its been quite a while now, and the cdrom drive is no longer popping open. I have done nothing else. Something (I am not too sure what) I did must have fixed it. So I marked it solved. Thanks to all for your help.
John
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