Re: Poll about DVD drive behavior

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

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.

  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