I can't eject a disk from my MAC

I was trying to download a disk to iTunes last night and it locked up.  Not just the disk, but iTunes has locked me out completely as well.  I went to the finder and saw the disk listed and clicked for it to Force Eject, but nothing happened.  I also went to System Preferences and clicked on CD/DVD and now it too is locked. What now?
TIA for the help!
Cinder-Ella

Yes tbirdvet, it's plugged directly into my Mac Mini.
Thanks IIIaass, I couldn't find the link to the Super Drive troubleshooting.  I'll give it a try.
By the way, I did another restart in an effort to eject the disk and on start-up the disk did NOT eject but is now displayed on my desktop.  Hopefully it was just a minor glitch.

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