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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / March 2008Eject the DVD--Please!
I put in a commercial DVD to play on my system. It whirs and purrs, sometimes it spits it out. I put it back in. It whirs and purrs again, this time it's happy, I play it. The end. But sometimes I put a disk in this-away, maybe more than once, and it stops spitting it out, but it doesn't recognize it either. And I can't eject it with F12 or Apple-E. I run disk utilty. There it sits. I select the disk and use the "eject" button to no avail: "Eject failed, disk [diskname] could not be unmounted. Make sure applications and and files are closed on this disk." To my knowledge I've run no user applications to access it that are still running. I have no applications operating. I load Toast Titanium (8.x). Eject, though not greyed-out, is unresponsive. Diskinfo says it couldn't read the tale of contents, and so it may be damaged. How the hell do I get this thing out of my drive without a reboot or two?  SignatureThank you and have a nice day. > I put in a commercial DVD to play on my system. It whirs and purrs, > sometimes it spits it out. I put it back in. It whirs and purrs again, [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > How the hell do I get this thing out of my drive without a reboot or two? Have you tried logging out and back in? SignatureNote: Please send all responses to the relevant news group. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. JR >> I put in a commercial DVD to play on my system. It whirs and purrs, >> sometimes it spits it out. I put it back in. It whirs and purrs again, [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Have you tried logging out and back in? Not this time. But I've tried it before. One odd thing today after I sent the post. I issued a opt/apple-F12. I have no idea why. My computer went to sleep. I woke it up immediately, and as it arose I could here a read on the DVD. I could then eject it. Thirty minutes later the same situation occured. I again issued opt/apple-F12 and it again went to sleep. This time it refused to wake up. After a number of attempts to rouse it it went in to hyper-fan mode, and I rebooted it. SignatureThank you and have a nice day. [in response to gtr's inability to eject a CD] > > Have you tried logging out and back in? > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > up. After a number of attempts to rouse it it went in to hyper-fan > mode, and I rebooted it. Ouch. Next time, try issuing the lsof command in a terminal window, grepping for the name of the CD, like this: lsof | grep "Call Of Duty" That will tell you if any application still has any files open on the CD. SignatureNote: Please send all responses to the relevant news group. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. JR > Next time, try issuing the lsof command in a terminal window, grepping > for the name of the CD, like this: > > lsof | grep "Call Of Duty" > > That will tell you if any application still has any files open on the CD. Duly noted. I'll give it a try. SignatureThank you and have a nice day. >> Next time, try issuing the lsof command in a terminal window, grepping >> for the name of the CD, like this: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Duly noted. I'll give it a try. You can force the disc to eject - reboot and hold down the left key on your mouse while the reboot does it's thing. The disc will eject sometime during the reboot....... FER > You can force the disc to eject - reboot and hold down the left key on > your mouse while the reboot does it's thing. The disc will eject > sometime during the reboot....... He wanted to eject it *without* rebooting. SignatureNote: Please send all responses to the relevant news group. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. JR >> You can force the disc to eject - reboot and hold down the left key on >> your mouse while the reboot does it's thing. The disc will eject >> sometime during the reboot....... > > He wanted to eject it *without* rebooting. What he "wants" won't solve his problem..... In order to "force" a disk to eject, you gotta do what works...... FER >> He wanted to eject it *without* rebooting. > > What he "wants" won't solve his problem..... Neither will listening to people play word games. Dang, usenet can get tedious. > In order to "force" a disk to eject, you gotta do what works...... Tedious! The question is: Will anything cause an eject other than rebooting the machine? So far, in limited testing, I find that putting the machine to sleep and then waking anew, will cause a disk read, allowing me to eject it. SignatureThank you and have a nice day. >>> He wanted to eject it *without* rebooting. >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > the machine to sleep and then waking anew, will cause a disk read, > allowing me to eject it. Pointing out facts ain't playing "word games"....... If he has a "hard" stuck disk, the only rememdy that works, short of disassembling the machine is to hold down the left key on the mouse while rebooting..... There are cases where the procedure you tried will work - but usually, it doesn't. FWIW, rebooting is a simple solution and also clears out memory and other problems as well..... Having had the problem myself on two recent occasions (when the machine went into a loop), that's what you have to do "sometimes".... FER >>> What he "wants" won't solve his problem..... >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Pointing out facts ain't playing "word games"....... Right. So I wish you'd done the former. "What he 'wants' wont solve the problem", though, is just horseshit. I was being kind when I called it "word games". > If he has a "hard" stuck disk, the only rememdy that works, short of > disassembling the machine is to hold down the left key on the mouse > while rebooting..... Wrong, as I've already demonstrated, now twice. Apparently your analysis of "a stuck disk" isn't always the same problem at all times. > There are cases where the procedure you tried will work - but usually, > it doesn't. This is an example of the only remedy, then, being one of many "only" remedies? > FWIW, rebooting is a simple solution and also clears out memory and > other problems as well..... > > Having had the problem myself on two recent occasions (when the machine > went into a loop), that's what you have to do "sometimes".... I'm delighted to get an authoritative conclusion that will work "sometimes". You can now return that last eager volley to an empty court, unimpeded. SignatureThank you and have a nice day. > There are cases where the procedure you tried will work - but usually, > it doesn't. FWIW, rebooting is a simple solution and also clears out > memory and other problems as well..... Bah! Never reboot! Never shutdown! Never Surrender! If possible, restart processes after system updates so you don't even shutdown then. Signature"I don't care how much melanin you have in your skin nor who you sleep with, you can't have my cheese." |
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