SmurfyBH Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Well, my mac was acting up so I put in the Mac Disk 1 install cd to try and repair or see what was the problem because my Disk Utility wasn't working on my other user account on this mac. I had a white screen for about ever did the alt-cmd-p-r and still a white screen, so I held option and nothing worked same with holding c while the disk was in. left it unplugged for about 30 mins and it decided to work(boot up past white screen) Well now Im trying to get my Mac Disk out of the cd thing on the side and nothing works. These are the things I've tried. Eject on keyboard alt+eject iTunes eject Disk Utility to eject but it was telling me there was no cd in to eject. So Im stuck what to do fairly new to Mac but I have an Intel Mac 2.8Ghz if that's any help. Thanks, John Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/151588-imac-problem-eject-not-working/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmurfyBH Posted February 6, 2009 Author Share Posted February 6, 2009 Last login: Thu Feb 5 20:20:28 on ttys000 john-*******-imac:~ jp$ cd /dev/ john-*******-imac:dev jp$ ls -l disk* brw-r----- 1 root operator 14, 0 Feb 5 19:59 disk0 brw-r----- 1 root operator 14, 1 Feb 5 19:59 disk0s1 brw-r----- 1 root operator 14, 2 Feb 5 19:59 disk0s2 john-*******-imac:dev jp$ hdiutil eject disk0 hdiutil: couldn't unmount "disk0" - Resource busy john-*******-imac:dev jp$ hdiutil eject disk0s1 hdiutil: couldn't unmount "disk0" - Resource busy john-*******-imac:dev jp$ hdiutil eject disk0s2 hdiutil: couldn't unmount "disk0" - Resource busy john-*******-imac:dev jp$ hdiutil eject disk1 hdiutil: eject failed - No such file or directory john-*******-imac:dev jp$ hdiutil eject disk2 hdiutil: eject failed - No such file or directory Didn't work either Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/151588-imac-problem-eject-not-working/#findComment-1070957 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Chief Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Seems like the drive is somehow still busy, maybe because of some application/process that needs a force quit? I would, as a last resort, startup in single user mode and eject it (/usr/bin/drutil eject) from there. Just give it a go p.s. You can also use: drutil tray open/close Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/151588-imac-problem-eject-not-working/#findComment-1070981 Share on other sites More sharing options...
teme Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 i had a similar problem on an imac i was fixing for a friend, i ended opening the drive to retrieve the disc out. it was pretty simple to do. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/151588-imac-problem-eject-not-working/#findComment-1071462 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chumni Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 Well, my mac was acting up so I put in the Mac Disk 1 install cd to try and repair or see what was the problem because my Disk Utility wasn't working on my other user account on this mac. I had a white screen for about ever did the alt-cmd-p-r and still a white screen, so I held option and nothing worked same with holding c while the disk was in. left it unplugged for about 30 mins and it decided to work(boot up past white screen) Well now Im trying to get my Mac Disk out of the cd thing on the side and nothing works. These are the things I've tried. Eject on keyboard alt+eject iTunes eject Disk Utility to eject but it was telling me there was no cd in to eject. So Im stuck what to do fairly new to Mac but I have an Intel Mac 2.8Ghz if that's any help. Thanks, John Try restarting while holding down your mouse button. If you have a 2 button mouse, it would be the left click. This seems to work for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/151588-imac-problem-eject-not-working/#findComment-1072920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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