DVD disk will not eject

How can I eject a disk when it will not eject thru regular means?

Welcome to discussions, frank.
OK, here we go, in preferred order of things to try:
1. With the machine powered down, power up holding the trackpad button.
2. With the machine powered down, boot into open firmware by holding the cmd-opt-O-F key combination until you get the white OF terminal screen, then enter the following commands:
eject cd <enter> // (wait a couple of seconds to see if it works)
reset-all <enter>
3. With the machine powered off, use a credit card as a pry tool and insert a corner into the opening slightly, at a point about one inch from the right edge of the opening and press down gently with the card to see if you can get the release lever to spring the disc. Be very ginger about doing this. The lever often looks like what you see in this picture of an out-of-machine optical.
If those don't work, then you are stuck with removing the drive from the machine and working from there.
Good luck!

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