nexidus Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 I have an Asus sata DVD burner drive. I only have one sata dvd drive right now because I was debating other drive options in the near future. My problem is/was a common one that I have heard of before. Sometimes...with a blank disk sitting in the drive it will lock itself. Sometimes it will just eject itself while the disk is still spinning at top speed (hasn't killed anyone...yet). My current issue is the extreme problem with this...yesterday my drive opened with a spinning disk. Okay...so I shut my computer down and attempted to close it with the button on boot. Nothing... Okay so I pushed the drive shut expecting it to try and force itself back out on me like it has in the past. It just stayed in. Then I noticed the light was on...on the dvd drive. Solid green light. It is as if the drive has completely locked itself. My final attempt was to disconnect the sata cable incase it was a software lock of sorts. Nothing. Then I disconnected the power, booted, shutdown, then reconnected the power and sata. Still nothing. Green light on solid. I have been building computers for almost 2 decades now and I have NEVER had this issue. The software issue with OSX was new to me, but I dealt with it. This is pushing it. Any ideas? I don't really wanna take this drive apart, not worth the time for the $25 it would cost to get another drive, but that's besides the point. It shouldn't be doing this... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138536-sata-dvd-drive-major-issue/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
marticus Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 try dragging the disk from the desktop to the trash bin. this will eject your drive. if not hold down the f12 key (it ejects the optical drive). if that still doesn't work you'll have to disconnect your drive stick a pin in the manual eject button and pry the drive out. good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138536-sata-dvd-drive-major-issue/#findComment-980500 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexidus Posted November 28, 2008 Author Share Posted November 28, 2008 try dragging the disk from the desktop to the trash bin. this will eject your drive. if not hold down the f12 key (it ejects the optical drive). if that still doesn't work you'll have to disconnect your drive stick a pin in the manual eject button and pry the drive out. good luck I have no problem prying it out. There is currently no disk in the drive. On top of that OS X doesn't recognize the drive at all. The motherboard does though. It still recognizes at post. The green light is just on permanently. I have no idea what that could mean. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138536-sata-dvd-drive-major-issue/#findComment-980822 Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 i had major problems with sata dvd drive too ( didnt open, didnt read nor write, etc. mostly after returning from sleep) solved with switching to AHCI. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138536-sata-dvd-drive-major-issue/#findComment-980854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexidus Posted November 28, 2008 Author Share Posted November 28, 2008 i had major problems with sata dvd drive too ( didnt open, didnt read nor write, etc. mostly after returning from sleep)solved with switching to AHCI. Yeah, I could see the AHCI thing, but I am definitely in AHCI mode. AND the AHCI is fixed incase that could have been a problem (ICH10-R vs. unknown) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/138536-sata-dvd-drive-major-issue/#findComment-981172 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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