superdrive won't eject CD

Thank you so much Jhawkmatt!! You saved me a trip to the Apple store. Turning the drive upside down works!!!

Thanks a lot jhawkmatt! It works for me by turning the superdrive upside down! 🙂

dude !! this just happened to me and your little tip worked ! the drive is only a week old , maybe it was the cd or something i was backing up my cds to itunes on a one weekold imac i7 , dam cd got stuck , searched this thread !! your a lifesaver ! :O) cheers

I'm so happy my method has helped so many people!

You would think something as small as this would have been fixed by now... definitely a design flaw.

jhawkmatt saved my butt with the flip-the-drive trick several weeks ago, but last weekend I took the SuperDrive to the Genius Bar at a nearby Apple Store, and he checked it in his own MBP, confirmed the trouble and got a boxed new drive, which he opened, checked in my machine and gave to me, no questions asked. Clearly, there's a known issue here that Apple isn't fixing or openly admitting. I would think a recall of the bad batch would be in order. Why put other good MacNuts through the frustration?😕

Open "Terminal"

Type instruction: drutil eject

Done!

Thanks, who would have thought of turning the dang thing over. Obviously you. Thanks Much!

worked fine for me too

Thanks a lot

Ugh! I have one of the original Macbook Air models and it hasn't given us this trouble until now. (I use it as our backup computer for the kids) I have played several dvds in it without problem, but there is one that JUST. WON'T. EJECT. Any other suggestions? I've tried the Terminal eject suggestion, upside down, reboot and hold down the mouse clicker thingy, etc. Do I really have to drive the 30+ minutes to the Mac Store? 😟

Thanks jhawkmatt. It worked for me as well. I returned the superdrive and bought a LG one. Works just fine and who knows when they fix the issue.

I had a similar problem. I had a CD I was ripping when the drive stopped responding (bad/iffy CD) in mid-rip.

None of the normal methods would work to eject the disk. Then I tried jhawkmatt's suggestion, and still no luck.

But then, while the drive was upside down, I unplugged it, waited a few seconds and plugged it back in. The drive did it's normal check spins, etc. and then ejected the disk (I may have held down the eject button, can't remember).

Sounds like something is binding when the drive is right-side up and that is the problem. When I put that one CD in, it sounds like something is grinding, or the drive is having a hard time spinning up. But it did start playing/ripping, but then failed and the system dropped the drive, without actually ejecting the disk. The re-plug forced the system to do it's startup stuff on the drive again.

Yes I've seen the same thing happen, allot of these end up at the local apple store and they give them out new ones after retrieving there CD's from the bad drive. Allot of people by the LG model at Best Buy

This worked for us!! Thanks

Sorry - should have said typing into Terminal: drutil eject from Topbouffon worked!!

I know you posted back in 2011, but THANK YOU juliefromgeneva! I had the exact same issue, and your suggestion was what fixed it! Thank you so much!