How can I disable my dvd drive?

DVD is physically stuck and I want to diable the dvd writer

Have you tried going to System Preferences CD&DVD and setting all the actions to Ignore?
There are reported ways to disable the DVD drive by removing the kext file(s) that deal with the DVD. I cannot vouch for any of these as I have not tried them myself
How to Disable the Superdrive on a MacBook Pro | eHow is the easiest, moves one file.
I the above simple solution doesn;t work there is this
How to disable an optical drive - Mac OS X Hints
there re other. Proceed carefully and make a backup of the system before doing these.
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First of all thank you for participation in the forum its always nice to have users who shares the own experience and knowledge.
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