Thomas Schmitt wrote: > songbird wrote: >> it will sit there until i do something to it. > > Which vendor and model ? > >> i'm not actually sure if it will close when i shut down the system >> but i think it will close when i boot up. > > Closing at power up is normal. I'm not sure whether its the firmware of > the drive or of the main board which orders this. > > >> i hate it when machines do things i don't want them to do. > > It is a strange feature. If i only could find any tangible description. > Best would be to find a (proprietary) SCSI command which disables or > enables it.
ata-ASUS_DVD-E818AAT_a i tried things this morning to verify that my intuitions above were correct and they were. it will sit there with the tray open all day and when i shut down the machine. when booting up it closes it. i have no autorun stuff going on and no polling of cdrom/dvd devices that i know of. songbird (not sure this will go through with gmane change i made today