Depending on the operating system there have to be command line things you can do to eject the cd.

In Linux one opens the terminal window and types eject.
Works great. When I was using the thing on a regular basis I had a batch file containing that command, and assigned it to ALT J. Thus alt j popped it out. This is a Sony laptop, and the button is flaky, but I never put that into my system when I switched to 10.10, but I just checked and it works great.

Good luck, I'm sure from the past I messed with this in XP and found a script on-line, and put an icon on the desktop to eject the cd. Then it changed with Vista due to permissions or something.


John Conley
Musica est vita