On my Mac OS X 10.3.5 G4, I've had a problem for a while (past several revs of the operating system) where after waking up from sleep, I can't get my CDROM drive door to open using the "underlined up-arrow" key.
Does anybody else have this sort of problem?
On the G4, there's no hole for a paper-clip to mechanically force the drive door open. Is there anyway to do this on a G4? Are there any low level software commands to do this?
Thanks Ben Slade PublicMailbox@redacted.invalid (append 030516 to the subj to bypass spam filters) "It's the mark of an educated mind to be moved by statistics" Oscar Wilde
In article EZp6d.5529$ku4.1422@redacted.invalid, Benjamin Slade PublicMailbox@redacted.invalid wrote:
[open CD drive]
[...] Is there anyway to do this on a G4? Are there any low level software commands to do this?
If it's a burner
$ drutil tray open
should work. One would expect there's also something for non-burners, but I can't find it.
In article EZp6d.5529$ku4.1422@redacted.invalid, Benjamin Slade PublicMailbox@redacted.invalid wrote:
On my Mac OS X 10.3.5 G4, I've had a problem for a while (past several revs of the operating system) where after waking up from sleep, I can't get my CDROM drive door to open using the "underlined up-arrow" key.
I've encountered various problems with hardware not waking up after
sleep. I think it's a bug in either the power management hardware or
software. I had one machine which all too often would wake up from
sleep, I'd try to do something, it would attempt to access the harddisk
and then stop with the beach ball cursor. I had to pull the power cord
to get it to start again. I've also seen the same sort of thing happen
with PC Cards, USB and CD-ROM drives in addition to the HD.
Unfortunately I don't know of any fix other than to shut down or pull
the power.
Thanks for the info on the drutil command.
Unfortunately, when I'm in the problem situation (CDROM won't open after wakeup from sleep), when I try the "drutil tray open" command, it just hangs. Oh well.
Ben in DC Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein
Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
In article EZp6d.5529$ku4.1422@redacted.invalid, Benjamin Slade PublicMailbox@redacted.invalid wrote:
[open CD drive]
[...] Is there anyway to do this on a G4? Are there any low level software commands to do this?
If it's a burner
$ drutil tray open
should work. One would expect there's also something for non-burners, but I can't find it.