Forcing a disk eject

[Paul Smith]

On 5/13/06, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> > > >From time to time, my DVDs do not eject. Is there
> > > some way of forcing
> > > the disk to come out?
> >
> > This might not be the best answer, but most cd's have
> > a hole in front which you can insert a paper clip and
> > force the cd outside.  Do this when all other things
> > have failed, ie,
> >
> >
> > # umount /dev/hdc
> > # umount /dev/hdd
> >
> > # eject /dev/hdc
> > # eject /dev/hdd
> >
> > Shutdown and restart computer and when computer is
> > starting press cd switch to eject and take out.
>
> One must also remember that if the disk has a filesystem on it AND
> anyone has open files on that disk (including being "cd"d to it), then
> you can't eject or unmount it.

I thank all for the helpful information.

Paul