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Re: How to eject a floppy?



On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Michael D. Crawford wrote:

> Old world Macs like my 8500 have floppy drive with automatic ejection
> mechanisms, and no manual eject button.
>
> Is there a command I can give to eject the floppy?

Make sure you have the "eject" package installed, then as root (unless
you change the ownership of that device), do

    # eject /dev/fd0

cheers
vinai




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