Subject:   -39- How can I eject a jammed tape or CD?
Date: 14 May 1995 00:00:01 EST

  Shut down your system nicely, hold down the drive's eject button and
  turn the drive's power (or, for internal drives, the system's power)
  off and on.  See also
  ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/hardware/tape/ejecting-jammed-tape.