keyboard shortcut to eject secondary optical

[jelloshotsrule]

i have an original powermac g5. i installed a new drive and put the original drive into a firewire case. for whatever reason, the manual eject button on the face of the original drive (now in the case) is not there. i can use a paper clip or something to open it, but isn't there a keyboard shortcut to eject the tray for a secondary drive when connected by firewire? or is that only for computers with 2 internal optical drives?

a google search didn't seem to clarify. thanks in advance

 

[emptyCup]

Try using Option-Eject from the keyboard.

 

[jelloshotsrule]

nope, just does the main drive. hm

 

[iMeowbot]

If the keyboard won't do it to it, wander over to /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Eject.menu and double-click it to add it to the menu bar.

 

[jelloshotsrule]

hmm, nope, that only lets me eject the main drive too. poop

 

[mad jew]

I would've thought OPTION-EJECT would work. Are you sure the thing's being recognised?

 

[jelloshotsrule]

I would've thought OPTION-EJECT would work. Are you sure the thing's being recognised?

yup. i can make it eject from toast, and i've been able to read a disc from it.

 

[deebster]

Ardiem will give you a Menubar eject method, but you could also use a small AppleScript, linked to a hotkey combo using Butler or Quicksilver.

 

[apple_iBoy]

does shift-eject do the trick?

 

[iMeowbot]

does shift-eject do the trick?

If it's not showing up in the menu extra, then Os X is apparently confused about what kind of drive it is (that is, not quite understanding that it's an optical).

Mr. Hotsrule, have you given patchburn a shot? If it's a strange-ish drive and not a strange-ish bridge board in the enclosure, that might be enough to give the OS a bit of clue.

 

[jelloshotsrule]

shift eject does nothing.

it's the standard superdrive that came in my g5 (original dual 2ghz model), and this enclosure from newegg.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817146607

what exactly does patchburn do? i'll look into it in a bit and see if it might help

 

[jelloshotsrule]

just looked into patchburn... obviously my drive itself is supported, but would it potentially be of any use trying to see if maybe the bridge or whatever could be patched to work? ehh, may as well give it a shot i guess

edit: i tried it... i don't think it'll do the trick. itunes recognizes both drives already. it's just an inconvenience, but there should be a way to do eject the tray without opening toast or itunes. oh well

 

[deebster]

So did you try Ardiem?

 

[iMeowbot]

Meh, those enclosures ought to work okay.

The only other thought that comes to mind is that there are Macally enclosures still shipping from dealers with rather old firmware. They have an updater on their support page.

 

[jelloshotsrule]

ardiem works! and it let me set a key for it, so i just made a function key do it... thanks for the tip!

i didn't see a mac driver update for the enclosure i have phc500 on that page, so i guess that's not an option.

anyways, thanks again for the suggestions and the ardiem tip!

 

[iMeowbot]

i didn't see a mac driver update for the enclosure i have phc500 on that page, so i guess that's not an option.

It's there… they call it a "10.3.9 update" for some reason, even though it's firmware.