close optical drives with mouse

[waynezo]

Is there a way to command my cd and dvd burners to close without having to open any aps or press the button on the actual drive? I know under "my computer" I can right clik each drive and open them from the drop down menu but there is no option to close them. I would like to set up something on my desktop to open and close them with a mouse clik.

My system,
Athlon xp2400 cpu
Gigabyte GA-7vaxp mb with promise onboard raid controller
Kingston value ram 512ddr pc3200 400mhz
Dual 80gig maxtor hd's 7200rpm ata 133 raid 0
Artec 16X DVD-ROM
Cyberdrive 40X16X48 CDRW
Verbatim 2.4X DVD+RW/R
ATI all in wonder 8500dv AGP primary video card
VisionTek XTASY radeon 9100 64mb ddr PCI 2nd video card
Nokia 21" 445Xpro CRT Monitor
KDS 17" visual sensations CRT monitor
Antec 430 watt true power ps
Ahanix platinum xp steel case
Windows xp home sp1

[pelicanman]

Go to www.tucows.com. There may be some open/close freeware TSR applets there. The internal drive hardware and OS command link to do this definitely exists because Roxio can make the drives close automatically when doing certain operations.

[pelicanman]

Cd Eject Tool - $ 14.95 shareware

Alternatively, if your geek kung fu is strong enough, here's a little chunk of vbasic code that will do it

Here's a short code snippet that lets you programmatically open and close the CD door. Note that not all the CD drives support these functions:

Open and close the CD drive's door
Here's a short code snippet that lets you programmatically open and close the CD door. Note that not all the CD drives support these functions:

Private Declare Function mciSendString Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "mciSendStringA" _
(ByVal lpstrCommand As String, ByVal lpstrReturnString As String, _
ByVal uReturnLength As Long, ByVal hwndCallback As Long) As Long

Private Sub cmdOpenDoor_Click()
mciSendString "Set CDAudio Door Open Wait", vbNullString, 0, 0
End Sub

Private Sub cmdCloseDoor_Click()
mciSendString "Set CDAudio Door Closed Wait", vbNullString, 0, 0
End Sub

[Bill in SD, CA]

Maybe this:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download545.html

Bill

[Xtreeme]

Ahhh, but will they CLOSE? I can use keyboard command to "open" but the same command repeated wont close drive. You can do it in my comp and right click cdrom too. Hmmm. Always bewildered me why buts its always been that way. I figured if they can open surely they can close auto?

[waynezo]

Just tried Absolute control and it works great!

Thanks Bill

[Bill in SD, CA]

You're quite welcome!

When I found this program I immediately remebered this thread.

Unfortunately, for the life of me I could not find the thread in a search.

So the thanks should go to John Prophet who steared me here.

He's a better searcher than I am.

Bill