[TriLUG] Laptop CD Drive

[Brian Daniels]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 08:49:28AM -0400, Brian Phelps wrote:
> My laptop has a trigger-happy CD Drive button.  Is there a way (command
> or system call) to disable the drive from ejecting upon pressing the
> button?
> 
> 
> -Brian
> -- 
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There's a system call:
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/ioctl/cdrom.txt#773
CDROM_LOCKDOOR

that would work.

hdparm has a -L option to set the drive's doorlock flag - don't know if that 
would work on a cd...

--Brian

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