more CD-related problems

Lynn> When I press the button to eject the disk it
Lynn> holds on to it.

cs> lets see here, if I remember right you are using
cs> Reiserfs. ...

No, ext3.

>> I took the loop out of the options and the problem
>> solved itself.

cs> because in the good old days of SCSI-1 and early
cs> SCSI-2 daisy chains had to be terminated manually
cs> or the digital signals sent across the bus would
cs> literally bounce around and screw up data
cs> transmissions across the bus. The loopback would
cs> be used to test the SCSI bus and see if data
cs> could be sent reliably across it.

Aha! The lights just went on. *That* kind of a
loopback. I couldn't picture it. I'm familiar with
loopbacks in serial ports, but had forgotten entirely
about the SCSI issue.

cs> No, it is time to break more things.

Actually, the list is unending.

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Lynn David Newton
Phoenix, AZ
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~lnewton