On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, David McDowell wrote:
To get your drive closed, power down the machine, unplug power to the
drive and you should be able to gently push it all the way closed.
Maybe by being unplugged it may also reset it's dumb bit which keeps
re-opening. Worth a shot I suppose.
Didn't work I'm afraid. Tried it on both cdroms
Interestingly they are both scsi cdroms Toshiba XM-5701TA
and XM-6201TA. Searches on google for tray problems with
Toshiba XM cdroms didn't reveal anything.
Joe
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