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SCSI Disk Eject (Was : Re: flopticals...)
toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:
>>1. Can the RamFAST floptical ROMs ( is it "i" or "j"? ) eject disks by issueing
>>a SCSI eject command?
>SCSI has _no_ eject command (stupid but true). They do eject disks by using an
>extension Insite came up with to the SCSI Start/Stop Device command, which is
>not exactly kosher but I don't see as how they had much choice.
How do the CD drives do it? Is it an mfgr. specific command? Does SCSI-II
have an eject command? (They standardized the audio command; they could have
standardized eject too...) Does anyone really know?
Jeff Berntsen
jeffb@world.std.com