[hotani]

Several times I have had CDs error out for one reason or another and become unrecoverable. They won't eject, the machine won't see them, and the force eject button does nothing but stop the mechanism while the cd continues to spin -- sometimes scratching the disk.

The only way out I have found is to reboot. Is there another way? Am I the only one with this problem?

[techtrucker]

Sometimes Disk Utility can eject a bad CD...

[Maflynn]

I find, that if I hit the eject a couple of times and wait a few minutes the finder finally responds and ejects the disk. I'm not sure if your giving it enough time or not.

Mike

[saxman]

Does this machine have the old "bent paper clip" option?

Cheers

[hotani]

thanks for the responses. The bent paperclip option is there, but last time I tried it, the disk continued to spin and did not eject. One time I did this it scratched the disk, I would rather reboot than scratch my disk.

As for waiting it out; perhaps I have not given it enough time in the past - next time one gets hung up I'll give that a shot.

And when it gets stuck, usually disk utility can't even see the disk. It is in the drive and spinning, sometimes hanging up the finder (lovely spinning rainbow), and the only way out I have found has been to reboot.