Stuck disk in Superdrive

i have an imac and 2 disks have stucked in superdrive together !
so i didn't use the superdrive so far and now start up takes a lot of time to recognize the disk but it can't.
can i do sth to tell the imac not to take action for cheking the super drive ?
please help

Your post is extremely difficult to undertand but it sound like you have 2 discs stuck in the superdrive , therefore you need to take the machine in for repair.

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