On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 21:19 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > What you have appears to be one of those U3 drives. Visit > http://www.u3.com/uninstall and you will find an uninstall utility using > which you can disable the cdrom 'feature'. Unfortunately, the > uninstaller runs only on windows, so you will need access to some > windows box to run it from.
Aha! Thanks a lot! Might see if I can contact them and extract some protocol specs or code for disabling it, hopefully there will be a way to disable it from Linux in the future. > Apart from using the uninstaller, I do not think there is any way to > disable the annoying cdrom completely. Should have been opt-in from the start, I'll be sure not to buy Toshiba stuff in future. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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