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Old 3rd August, 2007, 03:43 AM
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Originally Posted by danrok
That's because your PCs had a hard button for ejecting CDs, which works even when the OS doesn't.
Well, technically, it's just another soft button, but one that uses firmware running on the CD drive. The drive can be instructed to ignore the eject button, by some software on the PC issuing the "lock drive" command to the CD/DVD drive. Guess what - that stops the eject button working.
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