DVD burner sticks

[LeoTheLion89]

i know this is a mac fourm but i cant find answers anywhere else in my linux machine i have a Liteon SATA DVD Burner drive the drive works fine but it never ejects i press the eject button it dont come out i have to take a screw driver put it under the drive tray push the eject and pull on the screw drive to make it eject however if i have a disc in the drive and hit the eject button it will ALWAYS eject when there is no disc i have to pry it open what gives?

 

[Satcomer]

Have you cleaned the lens of the Cd/DVD player yet? Just follow the steps in this MacOSX Hints post One fix for non-functioning SuperDrive. It might help on most any older CD/DVD drive.

 

[LeoTheLion89]

the drive functions just fine i just wont eject if no disc is in it

 

[oldmanmac]

Did you ever consider that it might just be broken ! You might consider adding a disk eject icon to your upper panel and see if that works.

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Have you tried right-clicking the DVD icon on the computer and selecting something similar to "eject" or "open tray" from the menu that pops up?

 

[pollostar]

This is your laptop or something else
If this is laptop than follow my steps"
Restart laptop
Watch screen carefully and press the eject button on the DVD drive as soon as the memory count begins.
Many stuck DVD drives can be solved by simply rebooting the laptop.

 

[MacOSX1058]

@oldmanmac: No the DVD Drive is rather new it is not broken.
@pollostar: This is a Desktop 5.25" Drive and restarting has nothing to do with it.