Only the Open Firmware worked in my situation, but I could have tried connecting my original iMac mouse and booting with the button held down. In the above command, the number "1" should be replaced with whatever drive number you obtained in the first step. Type the command drutil list into the Terminal and press return. The other method takes a little more work but can work in instances where the first method fails.ġ. Simply type in this command and press return. The first command to try is drutil tray eject. Using the Terminal There are two commands that can be used in the Terminal (located in Applications/Utilities) which can be used to force disk ejection: After booting into Open Firmware, type the command eject-cd. If you have a Mac that will not startup properly and has a stuck disc, try booting into Open Firmware by holding down Command, Option, O key and F key during startup. In some cases holding down a connected mouse button at startup will cause a misbehaving optical drive to eject its media. In Disk Utility, simply select the volume you want to unmount and click Eject.
The first and simplest method, if you only want to unmount a single volume on the disk, is to use Disk Utility, located in Applications/Utilities. Mini-Tutorial: Ejecting media in Mac OS X: Removing 'stuck' CDs/DVDs - MacFixItįrom 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.
Recently I ran into a stuck CD/DVD that failed all the steps in this 2004 MacFixIt article on my 10.4.11 iMac. My best guess is that there's some cult around software control of hardware that makes it impossible for Apple engineers to implement non-stick CDs. It's been a problem as long as I remember, but it got much worse when Apple eliminated the old paper-clip manual eject method. If Apple had a sense of shame, CDs would not get stuck inside Macs so often.
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