[LINK] Strange things with Mac

Adam Todd adam at todd.inoz.com
Fri Feb 6 16:29:19 EST 2004


> >How on earth do I get the damn thing out of the drive!
>
>    I'm not a Mac user (not that I don't think it's superior to MS Windows 
> :­), but it may have something to do with the fact that CD-RW disks can't 
> be read by  read­only or read/write­once drives.

Considered that.  Strange things on this disk anyway.  We started using it 
on the Dual Pentium this morning and could access all the files.  Later we 
couldn't see the files in the subdirectories.  We tried it on my 
workstation, but same result, so I thought I'd try it in the Mac.

>Perhaps the system doesn't even know it has a disk in the drive.

It's mounted when I use terminal (aka telnet) into the system and type 
"mount" it shows as /dev/disk7s0 mounted on /Volumes/IGNITE

But I can't umount it :)  Permission denied.


>Is there an "eject" button somewhere which will unconditionally open the 
>drawer?

Nope.  Silly thing about Mac's they don't have an eject button on the front 
panel!  ARGH!

>Other than that, it might be time for surgery.

That's what I'm up to.











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