FireWire 800 / Can't eject disk

First I was having issues with my external hard drive arbitrarily disconnecting and giving me the message that it was improperly disconnected. (When I hadn't touched it.) I read here on the forums and disconnected everything to reset the fuse. Waited 10 minutes and rebooted, then connected. It seemed to work, but now I cannot properly eject it. I get a message that it wasn't ejected "because one or more programs may be using it." But I'm not using it. What gives? Do I force eject it?

I just had the disconnect problem again. Any idea what's causing it? I have two firewire 800 cables, and I've tried them both...just in case one had a kink or a short in it. I just connected the drive, it came up, and I got the message asking if I wanted to back up to the disk using Time Machine. I said "decide later," and it suddenly disconnected and gave me an error message that the disk was improperly disconnected.

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Hullo all, have had a frustrating time in trying to eject an install CD from my wife's MBP.
Set out below are some suggestions obtained from the web......nothing will eject the disk.
I am trying to re-instal OSX Snow Leopard then move to Lion. Have sucessfully deleted the hard drive using Disk Utility from the instal disk, but now I find I am in a loop!! Try as I might, the disk is firmly implanted in the drive, obviously it does not show on the desk top, as there is nothing behind it!! ie all HD deleted.
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From time-to-time, removable media (including CDs, DVDs and others) can refuse to eject via the normal Mac OS X methods -- pressing the keyboard eject key; using the Command-E keyboard combination; selecting the item in the Finder and clicking the Eject button next to its name; dragging the item to the trash; or pressing the F12 key.
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Hold Down the mouse button at startup In some cases holding down a connected mouse button at startup will cause a misbehaving optical drive to eject its media.
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