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to: Stephane Bessette
from: Gerard Gerritsen
date: 1996-09-13 02:47:00
subject: CD Changer eject/retract

Hello Stephane!

Tuesday September 10 1996, Stephane Bessette writes to Gerard Gerritsen:

[ Panasonic 562b refuses to close, Fx400 works fine ]

 SB>         So, it could be a communication problem, or a problem with the
 SB> CD-ROM driver itself:

I think it is the cdrom driver. Since dos sessions are also unable to close
the drive door.

 SB>   I haven't looked into the ioctl commands, but there could be
 SB> something there.

There is a 'close tray' command, but it works with a caveat, to close the
drive door you have got to have a valid handle but to get one you first
need the drive door to be closed...

==> Gerard/2   - member of team os/2 -  1000521{at}ibk.fnt.hvu.nl

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