Eject a stuck optical disk

did you try to restart keeping trackpad button down?

TZ

what about this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUqfS_ACuPI

TZ

Eject CD/DVD

First try a Restart while holding down the mouse button.

If that doesn’t work, look at these links:

A dozen ways to eject or unmount a recalcitrant CD or DVD

http://www.osxfaq.com/dailytips/08-2002/08-12.ws

Ejecting media in Mac OS X: Removing 'stuck' CDs/DVDs

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20041011075232575

Power Macintosh G3 and G4: About the DVD-RAM Drive

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT3072

PowerPC-based Macintosh: How to eject a disc when other options don't work

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106752

If you have the problem where you can’t empty the Trash or eject a disk because something is preventing you? Usually the reason is because some application has a file open, and thus you can’t get rid of the disk or trash the file. Then use What’s Keeping Me! [b]What’s Keeping Me[/b] (10.4) will identify the application that is preventing you from accomplishing your task. You can then use What's Keeping Me to quit, relaunch, or kill the problem application so you can get on with your business.

http://www.hamsoftengineering.com/products/wkm/wkm.html

Force Eject (10.3 or later) - Can be used to eject any removable disk that the system will not eject. http://mac.softpedia.com/progDownload/Force-Eject-Download-34780.html

DiscEject

http://frisbeesoftware.weebly.com/disceject.html

Try this procedure:

Enabling an Eject menu As a side note, you can enable another means of ejecting disks by opening the folder System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras and double-clicking the file "Eject.menu". An eject icon will appear in the menubar that can be used to close and open selected optical drives.

 Cheers, Tom 😉

In one of Texas Mac Man's links above, did you find the Terminal command

drutil eject

?