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Jul 14, 2014 8:12 AM in response to lardeliaby Jack Flannery,Just ran into the same problem. Turn it upside down and the disc ejects. Hey Apple, do you ever test your own stuff? Jeeze.
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Aug 22, 2014 10:48 AM in response to jhawkmattby fioranij,Thank you SO much! Brand new machine--I was very frustrated, but this worked beautifully, after none of the other suggestions did. Thanks again!!!
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Sep 5, 2014 8:25 AM in response to jhawkmattby r1ckums,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!
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Sep 5, 2014 8:46 AM in response to r1ckumsby fioranij,Actually, no, the drive was not upside-down to begin with.
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Sep 14, 2014 7:22 AM in response to jhawkmattby Ender03,Yep, turning it upside down worked like a charm! Who knew.
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Sep 29, 2014 1:07 PM in response to discographyby estavney,Thanks from me too, jhawkmatt. Turning it upside down did it, when nothing else would.
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Oct 25, 2014 5:50 PM in response to jhawkmattby 7string48,2 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!!
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Jan 2, 2015 7:49 PM in response to Topbouffonby marysplacestudio,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?
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Jan 10, 2015 6:59 AM in response to Topbouffonby danny frew,Thank you so much, really helped out a lot
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Jan 20, 2015 1:04 PM in response to danny frewby Dix1,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!
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Mar 18, 2015 12:24 AM in response to jhawkmattby mkoutalidis,Thanks for sharing. I can't believe turning it upside down actually worked!
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May 4, 2015 8:15 PM in response to marysplacestudioby dvannorman2003,Using Terminal helped - thank you very much!!
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May 25, 2015 8:28 PM in response to jhawkmattby mandajoe,Your post was the only one that helped me. I tried everything option that was mentioned and finally, the turning it upside down helped. I am not sure why that worked but it did. Thank you!!
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Jun 29, 2015 9:55 AM in response to jhawkmattby IamthederF,Thanks jhawkmatt, almost 3 years later and your solution still works. Saved my butt! Sad that this is still an issue with SuperDrives.