I’ve been using linux for more than a decade at this point, but in all that time I’ve rarely had a disk drive. The fact that this command exists and is just, one of the core utils included with your distro along with su and kill and mount and more is just… so beautiful. 10 years amore with this OS and I’m still learning things that the elders in the audience are snickering at me for only learning 5 minutes ago while they were popping their disk trays open with a single command back when disk drives were a non optional component.

  • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    6 days ago

    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.

  • Sturgist@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    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…

  • communism@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    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

    • crater2150@feddit.org
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      8 days ago

      Try eject /dev/sr0, that should be your disk drive if it is attached via SATA or USB. /dev/cdrom is usually just a symlink.

      • communism@lemmy.ml
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        8 days ago

        Afraid I don’t have a /dev/sr0. Tbh I built this PC yonks ago, I don’t remember how I plugged in my optical drive. I assume SATA would be the sensible and most likely option.

        I’m on Artix Linux with runit if that matters at all?

        I mean, it doesn’t matter to me whether or not I can eject my optical drive with a command, but at this point I’m just curious as to where the drive is on the filesystem lol

        Edit: I tried loading sr_mod with modprobe sr_mod (which wasn’t loaded for me) but still not seeing any sr* or cdrom in /dev. Again, not too bothered about this, but I’m kinda curious.

  • shirro@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    7 days ago

    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.

  • Kynn@jlai.lu
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    8 days ago

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

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    9 days ago

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

    • Khrux@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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      9 days ago

      It it to wait 30 mins then do it every 10, and pop it in startup, those were the days.

      The other was Free_Cupholder.EXE. I miss disk drives for this reason more than for actual use.