A trick that works with easily disassembled macs, I guess iMacs would
be out of the question, is to shut down, remove the data cable, turn on
on press the eject button on the drive itself.
The drive doesn't know, not being connected to a computer whether it is
empty or full, and it will invariably open, well unless it's jammed.
Shut down again, re-plug the data cable, turn on again and hope it
doesn't happen again.
Laborious, but should work.
IMPORTANT!!! DO NOT unplug and re-plug the data cable with the computer
running or say bye bye to your motherboard! ATA is not hot swappable.
You might get away with it, but eventually you'll fry the mobo. And if
you do it with hard drives you might corrupt the drive as well.
HTH
Cheers
Andrea
On 06/01/2006, at 11:25 PM, Virginia S Moe wrote:
Hi - I am notorious in our family for shoving the CD into a drawer so
sloppily that it slides up over the drawer and jams up the mechanical
workings - in that case even the paperclip in the hole doesn't work,
nor
does holding the mouse button on startup, nor does anything else except
taking the dad-gum thing apart and hopefully getting it back together
again.
I've been unable to find a hole for the paperclip in a slot-loading
iMac
however. The paperclip actually pushes something that makes the
drawer open
as I recall, so obviously that applies only if there is a drawer.
Clearly
this is not for normal usage but when I'm desperate I'll try anything.
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Subject: Re: [G] Opening CD drawer in 9
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:24:00 -0800
You can always open a CD drawer of floppy drawer with a large
straightened paper clip. Push gently into the little hole on the unit
itself, and the media will eject. The computer doesn't even have to be
turned on.
Virginia S. Moe
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