[Ti] ejecting a stuck DVD

[Kynan Shook]

I doubt that Ejection Seat (which I wrote, by the way...  ;-) will do 
the trick; by the description of the problem, it sounds like the disc 
is encountering some resistance on the way out.  Those drives give up 
very quickly to avoid damaging anything, at which point they suck the 
disc back in and remount it.  As somebody else suggested, you should 
see if a business card (or anything else similarly stiff and flat) 
inserted at an angle either just above or below the edge helps guide 
the disc out.  Personally, I'd recommend booting into open firmware 
(reboot, hold Command-Option-O-F), then insert the business card, type 
"eject cd" and press return.  Keep trying until you can guide the CD 
out.  It might help if you can tell which side of the slot the disc is 
hitting, but you can also just keep trying until it works.


"F. Mortes" <fmortes at saltidiomes.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Have you tried with a utility called Ejection Seat? I believe it's
> freeware and is available from Versiontracker.