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Re: How to eject a floppy?



On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:40:35AM -0500, vinai wrote:
> 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

Also, in OpenFirmware, you can use eject fd 

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