LonelyTV Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 I've ran into a strange issue with my install. It seems that my DVD-Rom drive won't eject after I've used it once. That is, after start up or a reboot if I eject and put a new DVD/CD in or if there's already one in there and I access it. I can't eject it from the drive. If I use the eject icon on the menu bar, finder locks up (well, I can still access the left side of the menu bar. I get a beach ball on the desktop and on the left side of the menu bar) and the button remains blue. If I press and hold F12 it shows the eject HUD but does nothing. Dragging the DVD/CD from the desktop to the trash or using the eject icon next to it in finder also does nothing. However, if I leave the drive empty I can open and close it whenever I please. Also, once I try to eject it and attempt to look at System Profiler's "ATA" section or Disk Utility the programs forever 'works' and never comes up with anything, and if I attempt to restart or log out it does nothing at all. Has anyone else run into this issue? My drive is a NEC DVD-RW ND-2500A and I'm running a Nforce 4-4X board (ECS NFORCE4M-A). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longtom Posted May 25, 2008 Share Posted May 25, 2008 I have the some problem, any news? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimari Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 Just discovered this problem. I have the same mobo and DVD writer as longtom. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonelyTV Posted May 27, 2008 Author Share Posted May 27, 2008 I finally fixed the issue before I upgraded to a Intel board. My issue was that I had both my DVD-Rom and the boot drive on the same IDE chain. I removed the hard drive and put it on it's own IDE cable and it worked perfectly. Hope that helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob968 Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 I have an Asus P5W DH Deluxe board and a Lite-on lightscribe SATA DVD drive. The hard drive is a Samsung, also SATA. I have the same issue with the DVD drive hanging if I leave a DVD in there for more than about 15 minutes without using it. If I switch out the DVDs within a few minutes of each other, there's no problem (like installing Final Cut Studio), but if I leave it long enough then it exhibits the same issue as above. It's almost as if the drive is going into sleep mode and won't wake. If so, it must be in a coma. Has anyone figured the solution to this problem that's running SATA drives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one_7 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 yeah..i am having this kind of prob too..i am using intel computer anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephensaw Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 I have opposite problem, it keep ejecting and won't stays in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 it means that for some reasons the cd/dvd is not readable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stjohn Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 This is a RealMac issue as well, with some drives. I ran into the same problem. I have a Lite-On SATA DVDRW, and it does the behavior described in the topic. Once in, never out. Anyway, the easiest thing to do is pop open a terminal and type 'drutil tray open' or 'drutil eject' whicever you like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(=Nemesis=) Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 I now have this problem as well. SATA hard disk drive and SATA DVD burner. Also, when this happens, System Preferences hangs and cannot be force quit. When I can log off and then log back on again, everything but Spotlight on the right side of the menubar will not appear. Using Terminal commands isn't working either. Can someone help me with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yahtzee Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 I had the same problem with the non-ejecting... Under Energy Saver, deselect "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" After I did that, no issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longtom Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 any new solution to prevent the dvd-writer to sleep? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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