DVD Drive makes noise of ejecting randomly

Belay that .... the solution seemed to work for a day or so, but now the problem has returned with a vengeance.

Looks like you too have been hit by one the infamous Matshita random failures... I've had SuperDrive problems for weeks, and I had to buy an external drive. Apple won't acknowledge the problem, though thousands of people are in the same predicament...

I have the problem as well. I noticed when it is acting up I can tap the edge of my laptop just left at the front area where you put the cd in, and it will make the noise. (15" g4 powerbook 1.67 hz.).

I suppose as long as the problem doesn't happen when there is a disk in. Has anyone had that problem?

Marco

My Macbook pro is makes the ejecting noise each time it starts up or is woken from sleep. I've tried all the suggestions on this thread, but none have solved the problem.

Any further suggestions or solutions would be welcome.

Thanks

My dad's MBP has always had a noisy and unpredictable optical drive but he put up with it. Recently, it started dry ejecting repeatedly and will not stop. Reboots, PMU / SMC resets - nothing works. I'm a Mac tech and talked him through everything that would normally be associated - not even a reinstall is possible cos the machine won't even boot up now.

I ordered him a new Matsushita drive and he installed it himself (very proud he was!) and.......sadly for some of you.....the issue is still there. He's taken it to the Genius Bar and they say (as they so often do) that the logic board needs to be replaced. I'm completely unconvinced that's the case but since I do all my support with dad over the phone (I live in NZ and he lives in Scotland) I am a bit powerless to take it any further. He's got a new iMac coming and I plan to talk him through connecting the MBP in target disk mode and seeing if we can't sort it out with a reinstall.

Curious issue, hope someone comes up with something cos it's scary that a new optical unit doesn't cure it.

My dad's MBP has always had a noisy and unpredictable optical drive but he put up with it. Recently, it started dry ejecting repeatedly and will not stop. Reboots, PMU / SMC resets - nothing works. I'm a Mac tech and talked him through everything that would normally be associated - not even a reinstall is possible cos the machine won't even boot up now.

I ordered him a new Matsushita drive and he installed it himself (very proud he was!) and.......sadly for some of you.....the issue is still there. He's taken it to the Genius Bar and they say (as they so often do) that the logic board needs to be replaced. I'm completely unconvinced that's the case but since I do all my support with dad over the phone (I live in NZ and he lives in Scotland) I am a bit powerless to take it any further. He's got a new iMac coming and I plan to talk him through connecting the MBP in target disk mode and seeing if we can't sort it out with a reinstall.

Curious issue, hope someone comes up with something cos it's scary that a new optical unit doesn't cure it.

Has anyone reached a resolution for this problem? I have the same issue with my late 2008 Macbook Pro since I installed Snow Leopard, and none of the resolutions in this thread have worked.

I have a black MacBook (early 2008 I think) and it just started doing this in the last few days. I don't use the disc drive very often & used it to rip a cd over the weekend. Since then it is doing the dry-eject thing.

Just curious, did anyone's found a fix yet?