How do I eject a disk?

I cannot tell you how happy I am, I have just got a stuck disc ejected from the darn superdrive.

I am using external superdrive on my iMac, I put in a disc, it started spinning, rev up and rev down, no mounting what so ever, no icon, no stopping. I restart and shutdown/reboot many times, no luck. checked on line for different suggestions and tried many of those, still no luck. That had been 2 hours or 3 hours I had worked on it and I got very frustrated. I was about to give up, then I suddenly had an idea. I pulled the superdrive away from the iMac and plug into my windows pc sitting next to me, boot up, and BINGO!! the disc got ejected when windows was up and running. Guess that it is a good idea to use both windows and Mac together.

My wife: The external drive is not recognized and the CD is stuck in the external drive (SuperDrive).

Me: Did you put two cds inside it?

My wife: no.

I tried all the tips above, they did not work for me.

I inserted an empty envelope from my energy bill and I slowly pull it out. Success! The FIRST cd was out.

For the SECOND cd I used the "/usr/bin/drutil eject" trick.

1. Press the eject key in the top right corner of the keyboard. (Not present in a macbook air)

2. Drag disk icon from desktop to trash can.

3. Right click on disk icon and click eject.

4. Use disk utility to manually force unmount the inserted disk from within the superdrive. This will cause it to eject.

Assuming you are on a macbook air. One way is to go into finder and under FINDER in menu bar click on preferences. Click on sidebar button at top of pop up window. Bottom of list is devices, check the box for show cds, dvds on desktop. Go to the desktop and control click (right click ) on the cd/dvd icon and choose eject. You can also drag the cd/dvd icon to the trash can which will turn into an eject button.

Just figured this out. FIRST you have to go to Finder-> preferences then click the button that lets you see CD/DVD on desktop. THEN you can drag that CD to the trash and it will eject! it took me over a year to figure this out (but clearly it was not super important to me...)

Since I'm here... is my SuperDrive capable of burning? and burning what?

Thanks

All good suggestions but none worked in my case. I was able too solve by opening Preferences and looked for CD & DVDs icon. Opened it and selected the checkbox to show the EJECT in the menubar. BOOM poppeed out like a cork

To save time and energy connect the super drive to any windows pc and then eject the dvd as normal. Works every time.

Go to Terminal

Type in:

/usr/bin/drutil eject

Then hit return key

Worked instantly!

None of these worked for me. I put the disc in to see what was on it strangely I burnt the computer desktop to the disc it then recognised it came up on my desk top and was able to eject

The drive sometimes has trouble reading an old dvd.

In my case the dvd won’t mount on the desktop. By accident I discovered that while the drive is still plugged in I do a barrel roll. In other words I slowly rotate the drive upside down. Somehow that helps the head read the disc, then it mounts on the desktop. I can then eject it if necessary.

I had this problem but I realized that most apple external keyboards have an eject button. Tried It, and mine worked. Even apple says It works. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202665

Even though this was an old thread it solved my problem perfectly. Make sure NOT to include the speech marks in the phrase at either end and be sure to wait a while - as it does seem that before the disc ejects! Many thanks indeed.

None worked in my case the CD remains stuck in the drive. I don't know if I should open (and how?) the drive. There is no such thing as a small hole for inserting a pin in order to induce the physical expulsion of the disc.