Eject superdrive from iMac

[MacPC]

HI,

I have a 24" iMac, because of the limited space, I can't use the side load internal superdrive, so I got a external USB superdrive to make it front loadable. The problem is when I attach it to the USB on the iMac, I can't eject the disk from the keyboard eject key, otherwise it works great. The eject key works fine for the internal drive. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

 

[flatfoot]

http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/28/enable-a-hidden-disc-eject-menu-in-os-x/

This will give you a menu bar icon with which you can control the USB drive.

 

[MacPC]

It's actually kinda strange really, it was working last night, this morning I changed it to a different USB port, before it was plugged in to a powered USB hub, but the hub doesn't have enough power to drive it so I switched it to the USB port on the iMac, after that the eject key stopped working. I tried reset PRAM and SMC, no luck.