Re: Poll about DVD drive behavior

[David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 21:23, Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> So my question to all owners of optical drives which have a motor to pull in
> the tray:
> Does the tray stay out for clearly more than 200 seconds ?

Hi Thomas,

I booted my PC and pressed the button on the optical drive to open its tray.
After 10 minutes, the tray is still open. Drive details are below.

$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-id | grep sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2020-01-20 15:32
ata-HL-DT-ST_DVDRAM_GH24NSD1_KD6I75B5854 -> ../../sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2020-01-20 15:32 wwn-0x5001480000000000 -> ../../sr0

# lshw -class disk
*-cdrom
description: DVD-RAM writer
product: DVDRAM GH24NSD1
vendor: HL-DT-ST
physical id: 0.1.0
bus info: scsi@1:0.1.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: LW00
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=open
[... here I removed output of hard drives ...]

# cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.20 2003/12/17
drive name:        sr0
drive speed:        12
drive # of slots:    1
Can close tray:        1
Can open tray:        1
Can lock tray:        1
Can change speed:    1
Can select disk:    0
Can read multisession:    1
Can read MCN:        1
Reports media changed:    1
Can play audio:        1
Can write CD-R:        1
Can write CD-RW:    1
Can read DVD:        1
Can write DVD-R:    1
Can write DVD-RAM:    1
Can read MRW:        1
Can write MRW:        1
Can write RAM:        1