ejecting a Zip disk using eject(1)

[Bryan Cassidy]

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What about formating the zip drive? Is there anything in the ports for
for formating a zip drive? 

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 08:13:06 +1100
"DG" <david at fielden.com.au> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I have a 5.1-RELEASE installation with an IDE Zip drive (amongst other
> IDE devices).
> 
> # dmesg | grep afd0
> afd0: 96MB <IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI> [96/64/32] at ata1-slave PIO0
> 
> I installed the eject package ...
> 
> # pkg_info | grep eject
> eject-1.4           Utility for ejecting media from CD or optical disk
> drive
> 
> But when I try to eject a Zip disk, the following error occurs:
> 
> # eject afd0
> eject: No such file or directory
> 
> Altho the package description indicates that eject only works on
> optical media, the man page states "eject is a program to eject
> removable media from drive".
> 
> Should eject work on an IDE Zip drive?
> 
> Thanx
> 
> Dave
> 
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