CD drive tray opens by itself

Hi,
I've been using Arch Linux for a year now and since very beginning as I remember, my ThinkPad T400 randomly opens CD tray.
Has anyone experienced similar behaviour?
I wonder, is it possible it's relate to this issue confiirmed in udev for Ubuntu?
Bug #1068575: cd drive opens by itself
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … ug/1068575

teateawhy wrote:Maybe you have been a victim of this:
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ … at_forever
Yes, apparently, I've forgotten about the entertainment I've set up for my imaginary cat months ago.

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AppleTV2 has no 'volume control' over optical - it either sends a Dolby Digital 5.1 stream for movies encoded with this or a stereo linear PCM signal. AppleTV1 used to send stereo audio as 44.1 kHz 16 bit (CD quality) whatever it was originally (MP3/AAC/AIFF/WAV), AppleTV2 mucks around and sends a DAT quality signal of 48 kHz 16 bit over optical which yoru Tv may not be able to decode.
Like Rudegar I'd consider the HD4200m as perhaps the model number - some older TVs had the same connections on teh back for a given range, just on lower specced models the connections were not actually connected/enabled.
Another consideration would be whether or not the optical port on the TV is optical out (would not work) rather than optical in.
The lack of analogue connections on AppleTV2 is a nuisance. Send some feedback:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html
Won't help current hardware and doubtful any new design but you never know.
AC

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Confused. 10.6 is DVD based. Only Lion and above are downloads.
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Corrupt partition tables or bad sectors or no room to adjust the partitions or the directory is corrupt.
ERASE the drive if Repair Disk didn't work.

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James,
I am experiencing the same "eject on wake" problem you are but mine is on an older eMac with a factory DVD/CDR (not superdrive) drive. The funny thing is that I have two identical eMacs (both running OS X 10.4.11) with the exact same software installed but only one exhibits this problem. I've searched these forums (and others) but have not found a solution as of yet. I guess it's not that big of a deal, just an annonyance. If you ever figure it out, please post your solution as I'd love to know the fix!
Good luck!
Brent

CD-RW Drive Tray Opens on boot!

ANNOYANCE~
Why does this happen? Does anybody know?
I recently purchased an MSI 52x32x52 CD/W/RW drive and every time i turn on the computer, it spits out the drive tray! It doesn't matter if there is a cd in it or not, it still spits it out. How do i fix this?? (winXP)

I had my cdrw changed.When they tried it at the service , it worked perfectly. but they changed it. My new Cr52-m Behaved similar to my previous but not sofrequent. Today i upgraded my firmware to v3.70 and for the time being, everything is ok. If you decide and try to upgrade your firmware do it carefully and follow strictly the directions described although it is easy.

DVD Drive Opens by itself

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Hi Acottin,
Thank you for visiting the HP Support Forums and Welcome. I have read your thread on your HP Pavilion dv6t-7000 Notebook and DVD drive keeps opening by itself. Here are some steps to check on the DVD player.
1. Make sure that when you open the DVD door that there is not something stopping it from closing all the way
(a CD/DVD cleaning kit available at electronics stores).
2. Make sure all updates have been done on the HP Pavilion Notebook.
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Drive Tray Won't Stay Open

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Shut everything down, open her up, and check the connections to the SuperDrive (which will be on the upper left-hand side as you're looking at the insides of your g5). There are 4 connections, 3 of which you can check: power in (which works since the drive does open and close), where the cable from the motherboard meets the drive and where it meets the motherboard. If those are all connected properly and you still have problems:
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CD/DVD drive door opens when eMac wakes from sleep

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The same thing happens to my eMac - and it has not been serviced at all. I have been watching your post for a reply. Can anyone provide a bit of help as to why the eMac CD door pops open upon waking from sleep?
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DVD & Blu Ray Burner Drive Trays Do Not Stay Open When Media is in the Drive

I have a problem with both Windows 8/8.1 and the Windows 10 Technical Preview (there is no issue when I run Windows 7).
I have 2 optical drives: 1) DVD Burner and 2) Blu Ray Burner (I just got the second drive a few weeks ago). They are attached to the secondary SATA Chip (see below for specifics).
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1. Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP45-ED3P Revision 1.0 LGA 775
2. Interface (for both drives): Gigabyte SATA II Chip - 2 x SATA 3 GB/s connectors (GSATA2_0, GSATA2_1) supporting up to 2 SATA 3 GB/s devices
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P.S. I also submitted this feedback through the Insider Program.
Matt

Hey Zagayer,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
As you now have two optical drives in your Mac Pro, you need to be able to choose which drive to eject. That is built into the system. You just hold the Option key while tapping eject for the 2nd drive.
OS X Mountain Lion: Eject a disk
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10613
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Have a nice day,
Mario

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If you got the part used, then it is possible that it has a bad hard drive / CD-ROM controller.
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As for special form factor, I would expect your CD-ROM drive might be a particular drive to fit properly. But, the hard drive will not be anything special.
Just get a 3.5-inch hard drive to replace the one you have in there. It will obviously need to be the standard ATA / PATA hard drive. SATA drives were not used until the iMac G5.
But, consider that the port / controller on your logic board may be defective. If that's the case, then replacing the drive will not do anything for you.
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Just be sure to set the jumpers on the new drive to match the jumpers on your previous drive (referring to the Master, Slave, or Cable Select settings).
If you get the CD-ROM drive out, and find that it is a standard drive, then you could look into replacing it as well.
It is not unusual for Apple to use standard drives. They don't make their own drives. But, sometimes they'll use a particular drive that fits slightly different from the others. And, in the case of your G4, I just don't know which drive came with it, and whether it had anything unique about it (other than the plastic trim on the drive tray which could likely be transferred to another drive).
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Keyboard icons: hp pavillion a6110n; keyboard 5188-6077, cannot open drive trays with icons

After Norton tech manually removed viruses from my computer I cannot use the keyboard icons to open and close my cd/dvd drive trays.

For Vista you will find drivers for the keyboard:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?product=3436818&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=34368...
re-install it.
HTH
V.
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Remotely open drive tray on G5 tower

I have a G5 Tower running headless, use ARD to control.
There is no disk in the drive, and this as the tray not the slot, so I wish to open the tray to put a disk in.
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Try sending an UNIX command via the Manage menu.
Send the following command to open the tray:
drutil tray open
Send the this command to close:
drutil tray close

Drive tray stuck open...where does the paperclip (manual eject) go?

I've got the Sony drive which has stuck with the tray half out. I cannot remove the drive because the tray prevents any movement sideways. If I get any firmer with the tray or little metal door something will break... My only solution appears to be the manual eject but this is hidden by the door which is stuck in place by the tray. There must be a simple answer but I must admit I can't find it.

The Great Escape?
After these previous posts I really 'took to' the drive tray and I thought I would let any passers-by know what happened.
I did some more pushing and pulling. much harder than before and started paying more attention to what was going on in the drive and decided to bend the tray in a middle up, sides down way and pulled... two nasty cracks (noises) and a complete and undamaged tray was in my hand. I took the drive out, used a paperclip to reset the manual eject and gently pushed the tray back in. Two nasty cracks (noises) later and the tray runs in and out as it should. The whole mechanism does feel a little looser than before but I risked re-installing the drive and grabbed the top CD from the nearest pile 'The Great Escape".
I have already had delivered a Pioneer 112D which takes over as top drive. So now I have two working drives although the second I know I'll never really trust.
Moral of story: If you have the Sony in your Mac Pro and the tray stays out it can be removed without breaking it using carefully targetted brute force but at the cost of some worry any time a valuable disc goes in.

DVD tray opens on start up after installing Leopard

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It makes no difference whether the tray has anything in it or not, and the tray stays open until I push it shut. Moreover, the problem is not confined to Leopard. I have three hard drives running on a SATA PCI card. Two of these drives still run Tiger (10.4.11) and they have developed the same weird behaviour with the tray opening on start-up and staying open until I close it. If I leave the tray open and reboot, it will close momentarily but then re-open as it reboots.
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Tom, you are nothing short of a genius!
It was the mouse. The mouse is fine on my G5 tower and on my wife's emac, but, for some reason that is certainly not known to me, it did not agree with my G4.
Now, before I mark the question as "answered", do you have any idea at all as to why the mouse would make such a difference? (It is an aftermarket mouse from China that blends with my white keyboard, but I had no hassles with the microsoft mouse from the G5, so it can't just be that it is not an apple mouse.)
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