https://www.thinkwiki.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Preventing_accidental_DVD_eject 2026-04-21T06:34:43Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.31.12 https://www.thinkwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Preventing_accidental_DVD_eject&diff=50263&oldid=prev 2011-01-12T07:42:03Z

<p>←Created page with &#039;On selected ThinkPads the Optical drive eject button is located on the curved area of the bezel. As an effect, I found it almost impossible to move the ThinkPad without ac...&#039;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>On selected ThinkPads the Optical drive eject button is located on the curved area of the bezel. As an effect, I found it almost impossible to move the ThinkPad without accidentally touching the button and ejecting the drive.<br /> <br /> The good thing is that I have very little use for an Optical drive these days, So my workaround to this issue is to software lock the drive on boot, and have 2 scripts to lock/unlock the drive when needed.<br /> <br /> To lock the drive on boot, simply add the following line to {{path|/etc/rc.local}}<br /> /usr/bin/eject -i 1 /dev/sr0<br /> <br /> Then I created two scripts, /usr/bin/lock and /usr/bin/unlock to quickly lock the drive or unlock+eject when needed.<br /> <br /> {{path|/usr/bin/lock}}<br /> #!/bin/sh<br /> /usr/bin/eject -i 1 /dev/sr0<br /> <br /> {{path|/usr/bin/unlock}}<br /> #!/bin/sh<br /> /usr/bin/eject -i 0 /dev/sr0<br /> /usr/bin/eject /dev/sr0<br /> <br /> Lastly, the scripts need to be owned by root, set executable and SUID root so you can run them as a regular user without having to resort to sudo.<br /> chown root:root /usr/bin/lock /usr/bin/unlock<br /> chmod 6555 /usr/bin/lock /usr/bin/unlock <br /> <br /> ===Effected ThinkPads===<br /> * {{T410}}, {{T410i}}, {{T410s}}, {{T510}}, {{T510i}}<br /> * {{W510}}<br /> [[Category:Scripts]]</div>

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