CD Drive disc stuck not ejecting

[faffer]

Powerbook(s) G4 15, I know if I disassemble both and swap the cd drive over, it will eject the disc. I'm assuming that the motherboard? is at fault on my 1.67hz as it will not control the cd drive although it recognises it as an icon on the desktop. Now that the 1.5hz is finally all put back together with all the screws, I'd rather not take it apart until such time as maybe an ssd upgrade. Any other non destructive way of ejecting a disc from an internal drive?

 

[Dronecatcher]

Powerbook(s) G4 15, I know if I disassemble both and swap the cd drive over, it will eject the disc. I'm assuming that the motherboard? is at fault on my 1.67hz as it will not control the cd drive although it recognises it as an icon on the desktop. Now that the 1.5hz is finally all put back together with all the screws, I'd rather not take it apart until such time as maybe an ssd upgrade. Any other non destructive way of ejecting a disc from an internal drive?

Have you tried from Open Firmware?

The Open Firmware Wiki

Figured I'd start another public resource initiative to encourage greater fluency with the underpinnings of a PowerPC computer, so that there isn't so much struggle and confusion just to boot an operating system (namely USB disks), check attached devices and resources, or perhaps even run system...

forums.macrumors.com

 

[eyoungren]

Powerbook(s) G4 15, I know if I disassemble both and swap the cd drive over, it will eject the disc. I'm assuming that the motherboard? is at fault on my 1.67hz as it will not control the cd drive although it recognises it as an icon on the desktop. Now that the 1.5hz is finally all put back together with all the screws, I'd rather not take it apart until such time as maybe an ssd upgrade. Any other non destructive way of ejecting a disc from an internal drive?

In what manner is it not ejecting?

Is the disk trying to come out at all, or is it just ignoring your eject command?

 

[faffer]

There is a degree of movement going on in the drive but not sort of mechanical enough for me to think the drive is actually trying to eject but can't, if that makes sense. Bit of background context; I've had the 1.5 for a number of years and all that was not right hardware-wise was a partially duff memory stick (512mb that thought it was a 256mb, bit weird) and a dead battery but it worked alright on its aftermarket charger. More recently I purchased the 1.67 as a spares/repair item. Which on inspection had a failed hdd, a superdrive that wasn't working but a good battery. First idea was too rebuild it using the parts from 1.5 but as the cd wouldn't work I went the other way and put the keyboard (has some additional sensor on the back) the super-drive and battery into the 1.5 made up a complete set of screws from the two. A little while later I found an old 40gb hdd and all the leftover parts went back into the 1.67 then without thinking put my OSX disc into the drive, which now won't eject. However managed to follow a "how to" and loaded sorbet onto it using it in target mode. Next opportunity I have to play, I'll be trying the open firmware option though.

 

[Macbookprodude]

Also, something else u can try - hold mouse down as system boots past chime. Your optical drive will power down and then should eject disc. this works for me on my Mac Pro and other systems.

 

[faffer]

Neither the holding the mouse button or the open firmware command worked, I also must have imagined the icon on the desktop as there is no recognition by the OS of a cd at all. So that job can wait until I'm in teardown mode. Usb booting next, methinks.