Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 28/02/2010 05:01:48, Olivier Nicole wrote: > >> What in a standard installation of FreeBSD, on a server running only >> MySQL and Postgress, could cause the CD tray to open by itself from >> time to time? > > Dodgy hardware? If the manual eject button is a bit sticky, it could > have that effect. Seems the most likely explanation to me. > > Otherwise, you'ld have to send a specific command to the device to make > it open up -- something that would be pretty unlikely to happen > randomly. Unless you're running any applications that understand how to > make the CD eject? Something along the lines of > camcontrol/atacontrol/cdcontrol? Perhaps hald/dbus -- not that there's > any reason to run those on a dedicated DB server?
I had a 4x CD burner that liked to do that. I chalked it up to drive hardware failure after the second time it ejected the tray during a disc read, and launched the rapidly spinning CD across the room. -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net <[email protected]> Furry Peace! - http://wwww.fur.com/peace/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
