cd stuck in cd drive after failed burn

[Mark]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 04:16:53PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 September 2004 08:33, Anthony Philipp wrote:
> 
> > After burning trying to burn a cd with too much information on it, it ended up with this error. 
> > 
> > only wrote -1 of 37632 bytes: Input/output error
> > 
> > burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFLUSH): Input/output error
> > 
> > But the cd was stuck in the drive, and would not respond when I pressed the eject button.
> > I was just wondering if this was a common error or just a bug that since been fixed.
> 
> I have never use burncd, so I can't answer this question.
> 
> > Also if this happens again, is there a way to force a cd eject without rebooting?
> 
> cdrecord's -eject option. If your drive is only locked by burncd this should work,
> but if your drive's firmware crashed, your lost.
> 
> cdrecord is part of /usr/ports/sysutils/cdrtools(-devel).
> 
 and then there is camcontrol, man camcontrol has got me out of a jam or two.