[Tuxaloosa] OT: annoying cd/dvd drive

E Hanson leprkhn at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 20:54:46 UTC 2008


yeah, i saw that one in my too; but, as you said, it's not relevant.

Robby Workman wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:31:01 -0600
> E Hanson <leprkhn at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> and i'll be damned if googling for "cd tray opens" doesn't bring an 
>> avalanche of windows user woes all "solved" by running a virus
>> scanner. and after that you get all the remote-admin jokeware stuff
>> that allows some to open a cd tray remotely.
>> these are all out since it happens preboot too.
>> i thought that maybe updating the firmware might do the trick (the
>> dell website HAS firmware updates for this drive), but again - no
>> windows to run that darned exe.
>>     
>
>
> I was thinking about this thread:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/978540
> but it doesn't seem relevant, so nevermind :/
>
> -RW
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