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Subject: RE: ejecting a Zip disk using eject(1)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Matthew
> Emmerton
> Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:32 AM
> To: DG; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: ejecting a Zip disk using eject(1)
>
> > I tried that too.  The eject command accepts just the
> device name without
> a
> > prefix, and prepends "/dev/" as necessary.
> >
> > Specifically from man eject(1):
> >
> > SYNOPSIS
> >      eject [-fnv] device
> >
> It's probably the case that the actual Zip drive itself
> doesn't have the
> hardware to eject the disk automatically -- you have to push the eject
> button on the front (like a floppy) -- at least with the Zip
> drives I've
> used.
>
> CD-ROMs, OTOH, can be ejected through software since the tray
> is motorized.
>
> --
> Matt Emmerton

Not so.  The Zip drive ejects quite happily under a different open source
UNIX-like operating system, and a similar IDE Zip drive in a different PC
ejects quite happily under Windows 98.

Dave