On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 jkenner@mindspring.com wrote: > plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us wrote: > > was that the same guy who was using cdrom tray as capholder? > > Are there user-space programs (even SUID 0) that can pull the CD back in? I used to have a lot of fun with the four outputs to the stepper motor used in tracking the old Disk ][ on the Apple ][+ ... totally software swithable (the disk drive was 95% software, including the 6 of 8 (6 of 9 with start bit) encoding) The 'eject' program can be used to eject and pull the CD back in... of course I've recently found out that not all drives support this. I have a SCSI CD drive here that will only eject (using software) if there is a CD already in the drive. $ eject # eject the cdrom $ eject -t # pull the drive back in