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10.3: Eject your external CD drive from the keyboard
Authored by: cougar718 on Mar 17, '04 04:45:42PM

Hello all,

I don't understand this hint at all. Why not use F12 to open and close the CD tray? This is what I use to open and close the tray. Why an AppleScript mapped to a modifier when Apple already has it mapped by default? Seems like alot of trouble for something that is already implemented in the operating system *OR* I missed something. Anyone care to explain?

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Rick alias cougar



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10.3: Eject your external CD drive from the keyboard
Authored by: kray on Mar 17, '04 04:55:22PM

Yes, unfortunately you are missing something. :)

Some of us have EXTERNAL additional firewire type drives (I have two external DVD+/-RW's myself) -- how do you quickly eject/close a EXTERNALLY attached drive?

Per previous hint: http://themacaddress.com/ardiem/



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10.3: Eject your external CD drive from the keyboard
Authored by: cougar718 on Mar 18, '04 12:21:51PM

Hehe ok,

I definitely did miss something :D I thought F12 would eject the trays of every CD/DVD drive connected to the computer. I'm pretty sure I remember my friend's firewire drive connected to my Mac and it ejected both cds. Maybe Panther removed this feature!

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Rick alias cougar



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