Enabling an Eject menu You can enable another means of ejecting disks by opening the folder System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras and double-clicking the file "Eject.menu". An eject icon will appear in the menubar that can be used to close and open selected optical drives.
If you no longer want the Eject menubar item, hold down the command key while clicking and dragging the icon out of the menubar space.