Hey, my PMAC 3.1 (sawtooth) has recently decided to spit the cd tray while on OF.

This happens every time, without any hw or sw change (or at least any recent which I can think of) :/

Specifically, it reads (cd-rom led is blinking) and ejects the tray (while being empty), then loads from HD and boots on MorphOS (this has always been a single boot system, no OSX/OS9/Linux).

Think the system tries to boot first from the cd, but how can I stop this?

[ Edited by Cool_amigaN 09.08.2020 - 23:41 ]

Well, at first I would check what are your boot settings, especially:

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Then I would try disconnecting the optical drive to see what happens.

And then just a silly question: You don't have an Apple keyboard with "eject" button that's somewhat stuck?

Did Macs also eject the CD when the left mouse button is pressed even with MorphOS? Or was that hw or OSX feature at the end?

But the easy test would be to detach both keyboard and mouse from the machine and try to boot without them if there would be something to do with them.

That's right, LMB opens the tray too, but when the OF is up it's already too late for this trick.

Hey, it's due to my recent keyboard purchase! wtf? I 've disconnected it and it boots straight into Ambient as usual. It's connected directly on onboard usb port. I switched it to another 1.1 onboard port and got same behavior. However this is a cooler master mk110/ms110, I don't understand what it has to do with the OF (doesn't have any eject button or the likes, it's pretty basic kboard ffs!).

If I connect on a nec pci usb 2.0, will MorphOS face any difficulty to handle it as keyboard?

Will do more tests. Damn it and it works great on MorphOS! Such a dissapointment :/

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My reply probably won't help, sorry. I just wanted to mention that OF seems real finicky with non-Apple Mac keyboards. I keep a Mac keyboard around just for emergencies. Non-Mac keyboards don't seem to work for OF keyboard commands on boot.

Most of non-Apple-keyboards works well in OF - there just a few exotic or lowcost CE types, which won't work ( CE = China developed Equippement ). In some cases keyboards are not recognized during OF-startup, but that behavior above I've never seen.....
Probably the keyboard-matrix generates a wrong code during initialisation, which MAC interprets as "Tray-open".
Would be interresting, what happens when Caps-Lock is pressed during startup

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Well, probably your keyboard sends something that your PowerMac recognizes as 'Eject CD' command when powered on. What happens if you connect it via PCI USB controller or an external hub?

On a PC keyboard F12 replaces the eject key, so maybe this one is stuck?

I had exactly the issue years ago with a no name keyboard.

It seems some random ps/2 / usb chip is generating keys during power up/initi and cause the problem.