How to stop my mac from ejecting CDs without even recognizing them.

My mac OS X version 10.9.4 ejects any CD i insert without recognizing it even in Finder. How can I get my Mac to read CDs?

Barney-15E wrote:
The reason it spits them back out is because it can't detect that it is an optical disk. There is no way it will read them even if they stayed in.
Give baltwo's suggestions a try, but you may have a failed drive.
Hmm, I wish that my Mac Mini would spit the CD back out. I spent a few hours the other night burning CDs to my Mac. This particular one was apparently so badly beatin up, that it didn't like it. It didn't mount in Finder or in Disk Utility.
I took the CD drive case apart only unable to find a paper clip to push the emergency button in. Thankfully I started Windows via VMware and was able to eject it from there.
If I didn't have Windows, was there anything else I could of done to force the Mac to eject the CD? It's an external Slimtype BD E DL4ETS drive.
KOT

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