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From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CD-ROM & Zip Drive won't eject
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1995 20:39:43 GMT
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weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT]) wrote:
>On a related topic, is there a command or option to get the drive
>actually eject the media? As far as I know some (most?) cdrom drives have
>this capability.
>

Sure.  See man page for cdplay(1) for a command that does it, or cd(4) for
the CDIOCEJECT ioctl to do it yourself.