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How do I eject a disk?

I can't figure out how to eject a disk from the SuperDrive.

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bert [Entry]

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bert [Entry]

"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."
bert [Entry]

"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."
bert [Entry]

"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."
bert [Entry]

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.