[tkmd]

I have been attempting to put my CD collection on mp3. Some CD's are old and scratched and represent a challenge to the CD drive (esp the drive in my Pismo). But here's the annoyance- I try to rip a CD and it gets stuck on a song. Itunes starts the spinning beachball- and I have to manually force quit the program. OK so I have the CD mounted on the desktop and I try to trash it (so as to eject it) and the finder say "error disk in use". So I thought ok i'll relaunch the finder - no go, it still gives me the same error. Is there a way to eject the CD in OS X without rebooting -OR- manually inserting the pin in the manual eject hole? Maybe a program to tell OS X - hey this disk is NOT in use or some command line thing (if so could someone tell me exactly what to type in?)

I've tried to maually eject it before but I found it leads to unstability the next time I insert a CD (assuming I dont restart between CD's

[Atef's corpse]

the unix/linux command 'umount' might force unmount the cd-rom. open terminal and type 'man umount' (without quotes) to see arguments for the command.

if you have no other discs or partitions or drives, then umount -A will unmount all, save the root filesystem.

[tkmd]

OK thats close but I have a os x partition and a os 9 partition. So umount -a is no good. So how can I eject this frigg'n pearl jam "Ten" CD! Umount what? common I know there are some CL geeks out there!

[derekn]

Bit of a shot in the dark but try quitting iTunes. I've found that sometimes if I play a movie or music file from a CD through Quicktime Player or iTunes, it won't let me eject the disc until I quit the app.

[tkmd]

Did that first (quit itunes) no go - then I quit finder - still this CD is "in use"

ARGH.

[Chris Grande]

Originally posted by tkmd:
Did that first (quit itunes) no go - then I quit finder - still this CD is "in use"

ARGH.

Try re-opening iTunes then quiting it like normal. This might release iTunes hold on the CD.

[tkmd]

Good idea-just tried it and OS X still states "in use".

[jfinete]

It might be an enhanced CD which mounts two disk volumes on your Mac: the audio CD, and the CD-ROM. In the Finder, open the Computer window (Finder > Go menu > Computer) and make sure that both disk volumes have been ejected.

[tkmd]

just rebooted and still the finder sez "disk in use". Jesus christ all I was trying to do is rip an old Pearl Jam CD to MP3 using CDDC on itunes. Now the CD is stuck.

BTW I did a search on VT for scripts that would automate unix command lines to force eject cd's and came up with a program that looked like a winner called - Eject it 1.1 - but wouldn't you know it the site is down or something.

www.nonamescripts.com

its a free script anyone have it? email it to me?

[RedStarr]

Open a new finder window make sure you're in column view and navigate to the CD icon click on one of the files in the CD and close the preview by clicking on the arrow. You should now be able to eject the CD. I've had this happen with images, txt files and when trying to trash a file its all because of the preview option.

[Mac_Nacho]

Try to do all things you tried loged as root. Don't know but may help.

[wadesworld]

Reboot and hold down the mouse button. Tha t will force the drive to eject.

If it doesn't, the disk is somehow physically stuck.

Wade