A nifty tool to open & close cd/dvd drive

[topgear]

There is a nifty little open source tool available called "cdslave" which opens & closes your cd/dvd drives tray plus a bunch of other features such as explore, autoplay all is accessible from the system tray. Features:

Open, close, browse and autorun your cdrom drive's with mouse, hotkey's or menu;
Show disk status in tray icon:
Disk type: Data, DVD-Video or Audio;
More information in tray icon hint (disk caption, icon, size, track's count and etc.);
Autoclose drive after selected period of time;
Multilanguage interface;
Also supports Command line parameters.

http://adsoft.nm.ru/cdslave.html

http://adsoft.nm.ru/download.html -- in this link you will find other stuffs to download by adsoft

[sauravktr]

thanks

[gary4gar]

Even u can do it by

$eject -T

[mehulved]

That tool is for windows, but I have left if here cos it includes source code but I can't ascertain about the development model, whether it follows FOSS model or not. I have no clue what language that web site it is in.

[anantkhaitan]

I have two drives but this

$ eject -T

always opens and closes my cd drive..

It has no effect on my other drive

[mehulved]

eject -T /dev/cdrom1 or whatever your other drive is called.

[anantkhaitan]

^^
Thanks

[freebird]

now a days with hal i think,In my debian i can eject as easy as pressing the cd/dvd drives button.yeah,the same way windows does.Yes it will umount and eject a mounted CD/DVD.guys anyone tried this?

[satyamy]

Originally Posted by gary4gar

Even u can do it by

$eject -T

how will this work

[mehulved]

Originally Posted by freebird

now a days with hal i think,In my debian i can eject as easy as pressing the cd/dvd drives button.yeah,the same way windows does.Yes it will umount and eject a mounted CD/DVD.guys anyone tried this?

Doesn't work if you're not using KDE, GNOME or XFCE or am I missing some package?

Originally Posted by satyamy

how will this work

I don't think it will work on windows.

[freebird]

It works very well with my gnome 2.18 on Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu Feisty(may be edgy too i forgot).No worries of closing opened nautilus browser for CD/DVD contents>It automatically resets the view to /home/user in nautilus and ejects the CD.
It works everytime without any failures.no more umount -f
I am using Debian Sid+experimental as suggested by @praka123by using apt-pinning.for novice users Ubuntu Feisty Fawn with GNOME also acts the same.I think HAL(hardware abstraction layer) is controlling this via dbus-a system wide messaging service
the suspects are gnome-volume-manager, hal pmount etc
.May be someone using Fedora 6 also can confirm this that ejecting CD drive by pressng the drive button

linux-pc:~# cat /etc/debian_version
lenny/sid

best of Lux @tech future
I found a thread about this:
http://easylinux.wordpress.com/2006/...untu-cd-eject/

[mehulved]

freebird fedora? I didn't get the conection of fedora here.
HAL works well for me on GNOME and KDE but not otherwise.

[freebird]

I asked if it works in Fedora 6 also someone can confirm?

when i insert a cd on my Debian box an icon ||r to when u plug inn a usb pendrive is appearing on my GNOME Desktop.earlier it is a CD picture;now it is changed.(i am bad in explaining things).

[mehulved]

Well it has been there with most of the distros with 2.6.18+ kernel if I remember right, so it should be there in FC 6.
BTW, ||| is for similar and || is for parallel.

[freebird]

^ for similar .

[eddie]

Originally Posted by tech_your_future

Doesn't work if you're not using KDE, GNOME or XFCE or am I missing some package?

You are missing ivman. Look at gentoo wiki for more on its implementation and usage.

[mehulved]

Thanks eddie, I have installed it will check it when back to fluxbox.

[freebird]

I can assure that i dont have ivman installed in my Debian Box.but it works gr8

edit:I think i found the answer.the pkg that controls this eject and auto mount on GNOME is gnome-volume-manager and gnome-mount acting for HAL and dbus in Debian Sid.
gnome-volume-manager=

GNOME daemon to auto-mount and manage media devices
gnome-volume-manager is a GNOME daemon that acts as a policy agent in
top of the kernel, udev, d-bus and HAL. It listens to HAL events and
reacts with user-configurable actions. Currently it supports automount
of new media and hot-plugged devices, autorun, autoplay for CDs and
DVDs, and automatic camera management. It is expected to be simple and
free of polling and other evil hacks.

gnome-mount=

wrapper for (un)mounting and ejecting storage devices
The gnome-mount package contains programs for mounting, unmounting and
ejecting storage devices. The goal for gnome-mount is to get the appropriate
Gnome software (such as gnome-volume-manager and Gnome-VFS) to use his method
instead of invoking mount/umount/eject or direct HAL invoking methods.

All the gnome-mount programs utilize the methods on HAL and as such run
unprivileged. The rationale for gnome-mount is to have a centralized place (in
GConf) where settings (e.g. mount options and mount locations) are maintained.

A nautilus extension allows to easily change the mount options which can be
user, drive or volume specific.

so its for GNOME users..

[ranjan2001]

Thanks I was looking for such a tool

[praka123]

Yes.It works with latest GNOME in Debian and Ubuntu Feisty.