Cd/DVD Drive tray not opening
 

Hey all,

Installed OSX86 this week. All works well, except that my DVDROM tray doesn't want to open up. Not by pushing the button on the device, but also not by clicking the button in OS X. Any ideas? I'm running iPC 10.5.6 upgraded with iDeneb Combo Kit.

Hmm, strange. Which button do you mean in OS X?

FYI, You can't eject a disk using the drive button since real macs don't have one. I have a Apple Keyboard and press the eject button on that.

On non apple keyboards I believe you can press and hold F12 to open the drive. Otherwise there is a unused drive eject app called Eject.menu in /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/

Open up System Profiler and click on Disc Burning to see if your DVD drive is recognised. Something similar happened to me a while back when the chipset kext for my board somehow got screwed up and stopped all devices on the ATA bus from communicating with the system (SATA was fine). A quick dropping in of a clean kext and some permission corrections soon resolved the problem.

re-cd-dvd
 

Right click on the desktop disk to un mount or unload before pushing the dvd button should do the trick. It will not open while mounted. MAC- Windows diff.

Hmm? Mine works perfectly with both buttons, F12 and the DVD eject button

He was referring to a real button on the physical drive.

sorry i wasn't very clear with that, i mean the Physical button on the computer by the actual DVD drive, if I push the button it opens... and holding F12 works the same to