Ejecting a blank DVD

Good Morning,
For the first time, I'm trying to burn some pics to a DVD. I insert a blank DVD+R disk into the iMac's disk drive. My system doesn't seem to recognize the blank - it doesn't show up in Devices in Finder. Since it doesn't show there, I'm not able to use Finder to eject it.
Prior to inserting that blank, I had played another DVD video earlier with no problems and Finder showed that disk in Devices.
1. How do I eject that disk?
2. If Finder showed the DVD video disk in Devices earlier, why doesn't Finder see that blank disk?
I have an iMac 24 with Lion installed.
Thanks in advance! Vince.

Hi, I just had a similar problem, and found that Option+Eject would eject a blank dvdrom. (OSX 10.6.8 on friend's recent, big iMac.)
Apparently, if Finder does not recognize a filesystem on media, it does not display an icon for it in the Finder sidebar (and no eject button next to it).
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