Disc won't eject....ext. harddrive and cf reader

hi, im having an issue with periphs on my ibook. i got a mac compatible ext. drive and it works great. problem is it won't eject. no other apps running and it still won't eject. i figured out that i had a jpg in the trash that wouldn't delete and renamed and then deleted and it started working again. that lasted a few days. now its back to the same thing of not ejecting anything i plug in. ipod, ext. harddrive, cf cardreader. any advice? thanks.

have you tried a pmu reset of the ibook? http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449 have you tried booting to the install disk and running disk utility? http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214 yet another thing to try is to remove any added ram if there is some. best of luck. Sherry

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Five ways to eject a stuck CD or DVD from the optical drive
Ejecting the stuck disc can usually be done in one of the following ways:
1. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the
      left mouse button until the disc ejects.
2. Press the Eject button on your keyboard.
3. Click on the Eject button in the menubar.
4. Press COMMAND-E.
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Really annoyed with the fact that this disc is proving difficult to eject. The laptop is not reading the dvd, therefore the usuall methods of ejecting a disc hasn't worked, e.g. pressing the eject button and moving the disc icon to the trash. I have tried the disk utilty application as well, still, the laptop does not recognise that there is a disc inserted!
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Please please help me apple community, thanks!

Hi
Thaks for the post, tried to reset the smc following your link... did the little turning the computer off and pressing shift-ctrl-option and power at the same time then releasing it. turned on the computer and tired pressing the trackpad. same result however with drive making noise but the disc won't eject i will keep trying though but do you know of any other methods??
Thanks

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Look at these links:
A dozen ways to eject or unmount a recalcitrant CD or DVD
http://www.osxfaq.com/dailytips/08-2002/08-12.ws
Ejecting media in Mac OS X: Removing 'stuck' CDs/DVDs
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20041011075232575
Power Macintosh G3 and G4: About the DVD-RAM Drive
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT3072
PowerPC-based Macintosh: How to eject a disc when other options don't work
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106752
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BDAqua,
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Go to your OS Help Menu. In the search field type dvd
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