superdrive won't eject CD

workied like a charm

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This tip from juliefromgeneva worked for me. Shut down, reboot holding down F12 key.

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Just ran into the same problem. Turn it upside down and the disc ejects. Hey Apple, do you ever test your own stuff? Jeeze.

Thank you SO much! Brand new machine--I was very frustrated, but this worked beautifully, after none of the other suggestions did. Thanks again!!!

Hey folks, if the superdrive is working after being "flipped upside down"...you had it upside down to begin with. The Apple Logo should be on the bottom (rubberized side for grip); so basically, black side with Apple logo face down, silver blank side up.

The more you know!

Actually, no, the drive was not upside-down to begin with.

Yep, turning it upside down worked like a charm! Who knew.

Thanks from me too, jhawkmatt. Turning it upside down did it, when nothing else would. 🙂

2 years later and I just ran into the same problem trying to eject a CD of photos from the Superdrive attached to my wife's MacBook Pro. I had not had any problems with the drive before (or since), but had run out of ideas trying to get it to eject. Turning it upside down worked the first time! How totally bizarre - definitely a bug with the drive that for some reason only impacts certain CD's.

Thanks for the quick fix!!

Turning over the Superdrive did not work. Typing "drutil eject" in Terminal did. It was an "Unsupported Disc" that caused the Superdrive to refuse to obey the Eject command in DVD player.

Apple—you've got to be kidding. It's 2015... and y'all don't know how to eject a disc there in Silicon Valley?

Thank you so much, really helped out a lot

I tried everything, but could not eject a disc, so I restarted my mac holding down the T key with it connected to another Mac via a Firewire cable, Target drive mode, (I think that this can now be done with Thunderbolt) The hard drive icon appears on the desktop along with the problem DVD/CD, it was just a case of dragging the DVD icon into the trash and the disk ejected straight away!

Thanks for sharing. I can't believe turning it upside down actually worked!

Using Terminal helped - thank you very much!!