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Re: How to eject a floppy?



On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 07:19:15PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> 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 

Just one more alternative :)
I use 
 # floppycontrol -x

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