Sorry Brian, wasn't thinking clearly ;^(

I had just completed an installation with http://cdimage.ubuntu.com
/daily-live/20111007/oneiric-desktop-i386.iso and after clicking on
restart now (rather than continue testing), the reboot process appeared
to work as normal, but when the disc ejected the tray just automatically
closed.

My first thought was, oh no (with expletives), but I just let the reboot
complete then hit a key to display the boot menu and selected boot from
first hard disc. I then just ejected the disc using the icon on the
desktop and thought all would be fine, but as I continued to try more
tests (this time with Lubuntu images) my optical drive would no longer
consistently eject or retract as it should :^(

I've previously only seen this with Intrepid (which released with this
bug) and Fedora perhaps a year or so ago (don't remember the version,
but I believe I was trying some grub 2 dual/multi-boot scenarios, I
don't commonly use Fedora and I'd think that info is irrelevant here
anyway).

I notice however that there has since been a new release listed on the
iso-tracker: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20111007.1/oneiric-
desktop-i386.iso, so I need to formulate a safe testing plan. After
leaving my testing box shut down nearly all day yesterday the optical
drive seems to be working OK again so I hope I got lucky.

Regarding the "drive breakage", what seems to happen is that something
electronic gets "confused" following this. I don't understand
electronics well enough to understand, but I have both Sony and Lite-on
SATA drives in the closet that no longer work properly after
encountering this with Intrepid and Fedora some time ago. I have a
number of old IDE CD-ROM drives so I may just swap one of those in to
see what happens. I'll report back after more testing.

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