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non-Mac Keyboard and G5 CD/DVD Drive opening
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Just put in our first G5 system. Using Dr. Bott KVMs to control multiple machines and use non-Mac keyboards in a mixed Mac/Linux/Windows environment.
Problem: Can't open the CD/DVD drive since there is no "media eject" key on the non-Mac keyboard.
How do we get the CD/DVD drive open? there is no physical button on the machine as there previously used to be?
We DO NOT want to change keyboards for a variety of reasons, so that's not a solution.
Surely there must be a way to open the drive without having to reboot or use the media key????
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You could also try F12, that sometimes works on standard keyboards. Try the modifiers along with it (shift, cmd, cntrl, opt).
YMMV
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Thanks, F12 seems to be working. (I did check the documentation that came with the G5 and it makes absolutely no reference to this!!)
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Originally Posted by dave49er
TinkerTool allows you to enable the Mac OS X Menu Extra to open optical disk drives.
You don't need TinkerTool for that. Just double click the Eject.menu
file:///System/Library/CoreServices/...ras/Eject.menu
(control-click in Safari and open in new window to reveal)
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Thanks Tetenal,
I've never even heard about this set of Menu Extras before. Awesome!
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