[variozin]

Recently I experienced a strange situation. I inserted a corrupt RW CD, and nothing came up on the desktop, so I opened disk utility, and it couldnt read the disk and beach ball kept rolling. I pressed the eject key, nothing happened. I waited and presses the key again, but no response. I opened the disk utility again but nothing worked. Then I left the machine for a while. After about 5 mnts more A message popped
"the disk in not readable by this computer" with eject option. So, finally it was ejected.

This incident left me with a need to have a emergency eject alternative, if all fails.
anything available??

[Nivag]

if you restart the Mac with either the mouse button, track pad button or the eject key held down, this will force the optical drive to eject any media that is inserted. (unless it's not a full size disc, in that case you'll need to either open the optical drive or try and fish it out)

[variozin]

So, if I press the eject key for say 10 seconds, the disk will be forced to eject, even if it is in the middle of reading?

And what do mean by restarting with the mouse button, or track pad. Is it something different from usuall shut down command? I always go to the apple menu., select shut down and finally OK.

[C.A.T.S. CEO]

he means hold the left mouse button (or the trackpad button on a laptop) when the computer is starting up and the drive will be forced to eject the disk

[variozin]

WOW.. Thanks for clearing the confusion..