CD Won't Eject - Mac Mini

[erat]

Hey:

I was hoping somebody can help me figure out a way to eject a stuck cd. I have a new Mac Mini and I put a CD (a cd from the photo store containing digital pics) and the cd won't eject.

I have tried the opt, cmd o and f thing, but I don't think it works on intel macs. I have tried drutils (sp?) tray eject and open. I tried ejecting from iTunes, still a no go.

I booted into single user mode and tried a umount, but it says the volume is not mounted. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[flopticalcube]

Did you try restarting while holding the mouse button down?

 

[erat]

Thanks for the quick response. Yes, I tried that as well. I also tried deleting /Volumes/CDname from inside single user mode; it said that the volume is read only - which makes sense

 

[flopticalcube]

Is it a full size CD or a 3" mini-CD?

 

[erat]

Full size cd. I think I see the root cause. It seems like the photo cd had some sort of autolaunch pic viewer. When I do a ps -ef, I see these listed:

0 174 31 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.00 /sbin/mount -t cd9660 -o nodev,noowners,nosuid,rdonly /dev/disk1s0 /Volumes/NORITSU_CD
0 175 174 0 0:23.23 ?? 0:23.24 /sbin/mount_cd9660 -o nodev -o noowners -o nosuid -o rdonly /dev/disk1s0 /Volumes/NORITSU_CD

I did sudo kill 174 and it killed the process. I cannot kill 175 for some reason. I no longer see the cd mounted under /Volumes, but I still cannot eject. Going to reboot now and see what happens.

Hope this works!

 

[erat]

reboot didn't work. In fact, the cd came back. Killed it again, but I still cannot kill the other process. CD does not appear in /Volumes. Darnit!

 

[flopticalcube]

Shutdown, tweezers?

 

[erat]

CD ejected. I rebooted, then hit the eject button before logging on and the cd ejected. The photo autolauncher was probably kicking off during the logon process. Thanks for the posts!

erat

 

[flopticalcube]

I'm surprised it didn't come out when you held the mouse button down on a restart as there are no processes running at that point. You may want to run a hardware test on your DVD drive.

 

[erat]

how do I do a hardware test?

 

[erat]

also, it's a bluetooth mouse. would that make a difference?

 

[flopticalcube]

also, it's a bluetooth mouse. would that make a difference?

Yes, as bluetooth drivers are not running at startup either. I always keep a wired mouse around just in case.

Your drive is probably fine (now that I know it was a BT mouse), but just in case, here is the guidelines for the hardware test. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509

 

[erat]

Awesome! Thanks for the link. Guess I'll need to keep a USB mouse handy. Thanks again for your help.