On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Ted Unangst <ted.unan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote:
>> Does this depend on support from the hardware >> (the CD drive remembering the eject request)? > > If I'm not mistaken, this is dependent on the drive. When a CD is > mounted, the drive is told it is busy. When unmounted, it is told not > busy. The eject command is delivered, but it is delayed until the > drive isn't busy. The same effect should be observable with the eject > button as well. > This is absolutely the case on a Macbook and Apple hardware in general. I experience the same situation where the eject command will wait for release of the mount, and requires that the umount command be explicitly given.
