Mac Mini 2010 10.9.2 No CD [Fixed]

[apomarinov]

So I decided to burn a cd, pushed the cd in, it got sucked, and finish. No trace of it in the finder, in disk utility, on the desktop, nowhere. I tried keyboard button, terminal commands:
490 drutil tray eject
491 /usr/bin/drutil eject
492 drutil status
493 drutil info
494 drutil getconfig
495 drutil eject
SMC reset, Cmd+Option+P+R, mouse button hold at start up, and no change. Any Ideas?
I dont remember using any cds after updating to mavericks, but I always had it working before. Now its just that Remote Disc in the Finder, and no CD/DVD Share in the Preferences Share section.

 

[maflynn]

Reboot the Mini and hold the mouse left mouse button down when it restarts. That ejects the drive.

 

[apomarinov]

Thanks, but I`ve tried that, as I said in the first post.

 

[ElectronGuru]

Is the drive dead? Do you hear it make sounds during reboot?

 

[apomarinov]

Well, it accepted the CD I put in just normaly, and yes when I boot it every morning it makes the sound, and now with the CD in, it also makes some sounds.
I had VMWare and uninstalled it, but it didn`t help.

 

[campyguy]

Gawd, I remember having to deal with this problem on an older Mini - what a PITA. There weren't any Apple Stores to help me then! I used a tongue depressor, instead of the ruler!

http://adrianhoe.com/adrianhoe/2006/09/10/disc-jammed-in-mac-mini-superdrive/

 

[Larry-K]

Do they still have the hole for the paper clip or did they replace it with the power led?

I don't have mine with me or I'd check.

 

[apomarinov]

No luck here, I felt the lurer touch the cd and then just slide right along its form till i got to the right. Check awesomely drawn picture. No warranty too or apple stores here, so I guess I`ll check what happens hen I clean install, sometime in the future. Thanks all.

 

[spacedcadet]

take lid off

you can, carefully, take the outer case off the mac mini, this will give you better access to the CD Drive if the paperclip option isn't there or working.

Google instructions on how to change the CD burner.

 

[apomarinov]

OK so when I did the thing with the ruler I didnt restart it to see if the cd will come out, so I dont know if what I did next fixed it or the ruler. I thought that the SuperDrive connector to the motherboard might be the problem. I opened up the mini, pushed both connectors to the board and when I started it the cd came out, yay. And now its working fine and there is no RemoteDisc in the finder so I guess it was the connector not the ruler. Thanks again.

 

[808?]

you can, carefully, take the outer case off the mac mini, this will give you better access to the CD Drive if the paperclip option isn't there or working.

It is a 2010 model mini - you can't remove the outer case without removing almost everything else first, hard drives, logic board, power supply and so on.