I have a Blu-ray drive, though my case doesn’t have 5.25” bays, so I just have the SATA cables come put the side.

The sole reason I have it is because once a couple years back, I wanted to watch the Star Trek: TNG Spanish dub, which was only available in the US on a Bluray, which I promptly borrowed from my local library.

I have used it a couple times after, though - once to burn a CD-R with TinyCore to boot on a Pentium II laptop, and once to backup a Bluray with a dub only available on that medium.

I just tried and it doesn't seem to work for me.

Wait....do I need an optical drive for this to work? I think I might have a plug in drive somewhere.....

tilts head

plugs in USB optical drive

eject

pop

hehe

push tray back in

eject

pop

hehehe

There is a whole world of obsolete stuff nobody will ever do with a linux system anymore. Terminal servers with lots of serial terminals or modems for a BBS. Making a fax server, IVR, digital answering machine for analog land lines. Using removable optical or magnetic media. Recording broadcast tv. SCSI, Firewire. It is interesting to imagine what from today will be obsolete in a few years.

Those are discs not disks kiddo

This command was very useful for quickly finding a server in a row of hundreds of identical servers. No need to read the labels or look up which rack it's in. Just log in remotely, just use 'eject', and then walk down the row to the server that has its tray out.

Very helpful command it was for those, whose modem had to be rebooted daily back in the day: Have a cron-job open the tray, which in turn was placed strategically so that it would hit the reset button of the modem, then close the tray. And voilà; automatic reboot of the modem. Robotics at its finest!

Back in networking classes we used to have entire rooms of replicated machines, all with contiguous addresses and same logins. We wrote a script to ssh into every computer of the room and eject and retract all the disk drives at the same time, it was wonderful ✨

Sorry, my what ? Are you talking about relics of the past ? ;D

You mean the cup holder?

Ah, the good old days of sshing into a family member's computer and trolling them by constantly opening and closing the drive.

woa what the frick!! that actually scared me it's like 2001 space odyssey type of stuff

I need to go put my DVD drive back in my tower to try this!

You can configure sudo, used to elevate the privileges of a command, to insult users when they type in an incorrect password.

To do so, edit the sudoers file with a tool called visudo, which edits and validates modifications to the sudo configuration file.

sudo visudo

Near the top, add a line that reads:

Defaults insults

Save and close the file.

Disk... drive?

what-year-is-it.jpeg

I still have a disk drive but eject doesn't seem to affect it since for some reason I don't have a /dev/cdrom. I just checked with the physical eject button on the drive and it is at least still physically working—the tray ejects! I don't have any optical media to test if the drive still works to read CDs though

Almost 20 years ago I convinced my high school library to let me install Debian on one of the computer groups. I found the "eject" command, and wrote a script that just invoked it with an argument to close the tray. I named that script "inject". Being high schoolers, my friends and I made scripts to "eject" and "inject", along with various beeps, and named the scripts suggestive and tawdry things. We all had a good giggle setting the systems off on their little routines and walking away.

If you have a LS-120, it will eject the floppy disc like you were on dome fancy-pants Macintosh!

They should make a usb-port with a spring in it which can be released with eject. Until then I have to be content with just making sound effects when I run eject on other devices.

lemme guess.. and inject would close it again?

don't use it if you're flying a plane, though!