dvd and CD drive not working it will not accept any disc
i mac has not being accepting any disc for a couple of weeks i need it to work
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011)
Try executing the command
drutil tray eject
From command line, this works for me.
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I found a lot of people on the internet were complaining about the same issue and discounting the first crazy (so i thought) bit of advice I read I set about reinstalling drivers, rebooting, reinstalling Snow Leopard, PRAM reset, deleting permissions etc etc to no avail. So as a last resort, totally fed up at this point and resigned to buying a new DVD drive / Macbook I remembered the first bit of advice I read.
I took out my Tesco Clubcard, wrapped it in a Vision Express lense cloth, jammed it about 3 cm's in to the optical drive slot and wiggled it about a bit. I couldn't beleive the amount of crud that came out of it. I used the same method with several baby wipes and guess what...
It worked!!!
I can now play all my DVD's and CD's
Wish I'd just done this in the first place.
Matt
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Unbelievable! I did the baby wipe on the credit card and there was no crud, so I expected to deal with software issues, and the CD was downloaded no problem!
dvd and CD drive not working it will not accept any disc