Optical drive tray issue

[Gobbi]

Hi everyone

Some years ago , on the Fatdog64 forum I had this same issue with the DVD drive tray and , a package (or pet) was made available .
With any disc inside the drive , when I eject the tray after one second it closes .
Please help , if anyone still has it
I accidentally erased a lot of data last year .

[Geek3579]

Have you tried running "eject" (without the quotes) in a terminal ??

[mikewalsh]

@Gobbi :-

You may be thinking of the wee 'noarch' TrayControl .pet package I put together for Puppy.....which lets you control two separate drives. It's so long since I last had a look at FatDog that I can't remember whether or not it can use .pet packages.....but you're very welcome to try it if you want.

I've attached it below. Eject 1/Close 1 are set for /dev/sr0. Eject 2/Close 2 are set for /dev/sr1.

Mike.

[Clarity]

FATDOG(FD) has a converter which converts a PET to the FD installation format. Click the PET, IIRC.

FATDOG v9xx does NOT use PET packages. Thus, you'll find the converter taking any PET and converting it into a package that FATDOG uses.

[Flash]

Most .pets install in EasyOS, Tray control didn't.

[mikewalsh]

@Flash :-

Hm. Odd. It installs fine across MY 'kennels', and nobody else has complained about it. (Yet..!)

I can't say it surprises me, though. I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that .pets have to be those built/supplied by Barry, because there's subtle differences with various permissions, ownerships, etc, due to all the 'container' stuff in EasyOS, so.....I really wouldn't like to say.

Mike.

[rcrsn51]

Hi everyone

Some years ago , on the Fatdog64 forum I had this same issue with the DVD drive tray and , a package (or pet) was made available .
With any disc inside the drive , when I eject the tray after one second it closes .
Please help , if anyone still has it
I accidentally erased a lot of data last year .

https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtop ... 28#p700428

[Gobbi]

Hi again !
I just got back in town .

Have you tried running "eject" (without the quotes) in a terminal ??

Yes I've tryied that . It doesn't work .Thank you @Geek3579 for trying to help .

@mikewalsh
Thank you too for this TrayControl .pet .
It works . I discovered that if I unplug USB or shut down from the enclosure power button ,it gives this strange behaviour . Immediately autoclose or the front drive button doesn't work anymore .
But TrayControl.pet works . Of course Fatdog transformed it into a TXZ package .

@rcrsn51
Thank you too for remembering me where was the pet I used .@kirk helped us at the time .
I took a look inside the pet though and observed the executable file is different enough from the actual one. That made me think it won't work anymore .
Even the desktop drive icons went gone , and it doesn't work anymore .

Thank you ALL for taking interest in helping me

A good solution I found searching online .
Somebody , with a similar issue said that he tryied also from the terminal:

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echo 0 > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/autoclose

and that it didn't work for him .
But , when I tryied it It went very well for me
Actually the line says to put 0 in the autoclose flag in /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/ .

So now I'm thinking where to put it .
/etc/rc.d/rc.local or an executable file in /etc/xdg/Startup .
Or adding the script to /usr/bin and making a .desktop file and choosing an icon for it to be able to put it on the desktop close to sr0 drive icon .