[iBook] Matshita disappeared

[Tony Gamble]

Angus,

	Thanks for the info.  Found similar info on the Web, but no luck.   
Doesn't even list the device.  Guess the little darlin' is hosed.   
Time to cash in on warranty service. :)

	Thanks everyone for trying to help out.

Tony


On 17-Dec-05, at 4:45 PM, Angus Wallace wrote:

>
> G'day Tony,
>
> First, try reloading your DVD player. This program takes the disk  
> away from
> Finder. I think it crashed, and in so doing didn't return it.  
> Simply reloading
> and quitting the app may help.
>
> If that doesn't help, try going into a terminal, and typing
>>> df
> This will give you a list of all your partitions, and will look  
> something like
> this:
>
> Filesystem  512-blocks      Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/disk0s3  116948016 101315520 15120496    87%    /
>
> With probably 8 or 9 rows. Try to find your cd/dvd drive. It's  
> probably mounted
> on /Volumes/[name of dvd]. What you want is the device name. On the  
> above
> device, that is 'disk0s3'.
>
> then type
>
>>> disktool -e [name of cd/dvd device]
>
> and this should eject it.
>
> Hope this helps,
> -Angus
>
>
> Quoting Tony Gamble <tgamble180 at rogers.com>:
>
>> I was watching a burned DVD last evening while performing a couple of
>> other light tasks (transfering files via firewire), when suddenly the
>> image froze and I had to force quit DVD player app.  I then
>> discovered that I could not eject the disc, so I restarted... only to
>> discover that I still could not eject the disc.  I tried everything I
>> could think of: eject from Disk Utility, from Terminal, from Open
>> Firmware, holding trackpad click on boot... even went as far as
>> resetting PRAM, NVRAM and PMU.  All the while, the drive wouldn't
>> even show up in the System Profiler, although on every restart I can
>> hear it spin up and otherwise physically function.
>>
>> Drive is a Matshita in an iBook G4/1.42Ghz running 10.4.3.
>>
>> Anybody trip over this problem before?  Fortunately, I'm still under
>> warranty.
>>
>> Tony
>>
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