Cannot eject disc after installing Mountain Lion OS X
after upgrading to mountain lion my optic drive would not eject CD-R's? After multiple failed attempts with apple tech support and believing the super drive to be faulty, I found that the ONLY solution to ejecting the disc was to put the Imac into "fire wire" mode by holding the T key while booting up, then once in fire wire mode hitting the eject key. I believe there is some flaw with the mountain lion OS at this time, that does not seem to work well with the optic super drive? store bought CD's seem to work just fine. Has anyone else experienced this same problem?
hi Aime1984 / Ogelthorpe
My Mac came with ML so I don't have the luxury of rolling back to Lion.
I have just sent this response to Sky. I will update this thread as and when I get a reply.
Hi there
Thanks for your reply.
I must admit I'm a tad dissapointed in Sky that the current version of OSX isn't supported over 6 months after its release. Thing is on all of Sky's Sky Go advertising they say it is compatible with Mac. What they forget to say it isn't compatible if you buy a new one!
Thanks in advance
Jonty
Jonty
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