[moonmonkey]

Any idea how to do this?
The eject command needs you name the volume, I just want to eject any DVD in the drive?

Thanks.

[PSXBatou]

IF you can integrate this to apple script it should work.

1. Type the command drutil list into the Terminal and press return . This will provide a list of all currently connected removable devices. -- connect FireWire/USB drives for this

2. Use the command drutil tray eject 1

In the above command, the number "1" should be replaced with whatever drive number you obtained in the first step.

[moonmonkey]

Wow, thats great thanks!

One more thing, I don't know if this is possible but can you suggest a way to check if the drive tray is open?

I want to do this

if drive tray is open

then

do shell script "drutil tray close 1"

else

do shell script "drutil tray eject 1"

end if

[PSXBatou]

Originally Posted by moonmonkey 

Wow, thats great thanks!

One more thing, I don't know if this is possible but can you suggest a way to check if the drive tray is open?

I want to do this

if drive tray is open

then

do shell script "drutil tray close 1"

else

do shell script "drutil tray eject 1"

end if

It should work, give it a shot. If it does let me know (and give me a copy of the script please)

[moonmonkey]

Any idea on how to check if the drive is open?

[Madrag]

try this (save as appescript and run it):
(it still doesn't check if the tray is open, but can do both the open and close...)

property last_choice : "Open"

--comment out the next line to have it run without user interaction:
set last_choice to button returned of (display dialog "Open or close the drive tray?" buttons {"Close", "Open"} default button last_choice with icon 1)
if last_choice = "Open" then
do shell script "drutil tray open -drive 1"
set last_choice to "Close"
else
do shell script "drutil tray close -drive 1"
set last_choice to "Open"
end if