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Posted by: mraroid on 2016-03-23 04:00:57
Folks...
I am having a devil of a time with a G4 powerbook I bought on ebay. My drive took my Apple OS DVD just fine, read it just fine, and ejected it just fine.
I have a new stack of Sony CD-R (700MB) branded CDs. I inserted one and it never appeared on the desktop. After re booting several times, it finally spit out the blank CD. Just in case that one was defective, I tried another one. Same issue. Only this time, the powerbook will not see it, or spit it out. I have shut down the Mac, rebooted, but nothing will eject the CD. I can hear the CD (or the drive) spin up when I boot or re boot.
Do I have access to any keyboard commands to eject a DVD or a CD? How about a reboot key command?
My powerbook is missing the small hole I see in older macs that let me stick a paperclip in it, and manually eject a DVD or a CD.
Other this disassemble the powerbook, any suggestions on how I can eject the disk?
Thanks in advance.
jack
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Posted by: galgot on 2016-03-23 04:39:50
Reboot the PowerBook while keeping the mouse button pressed.
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Posted by: ScutBoy on 2016-03-23 10:38:18
Galgot's method should work, but if not, if this model still has Open Firmware (boot holding CMD+OPT+O+F) at the prompt type
eject
and it should eject the disk.
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Posted by: CC_333 on 2016-03-23 19:50:09
This model does have Open Firmware (all PPC Macs have it), so typing those commands is definitely a thing.
Also, you're aware of the eject key up near the top right of the keyboard? I believe that it would only work if the OS sees something in the drive, though (unless it's a desktop, in which case, this button will open and close the tray).
c
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Posted by: Elfen on 2016-03-23 22:24:48
Above the DELETE button (upper right) is the CD Eject button. Hold it down when you turn it on or when the desktop finishes loading.
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Posted by: mraroid on 2016-03-24 08:51:27
Thanks everyone for the many suggestions.
Last night I tried holding down the mouse pad and booting. That did not help. I was going to try ScutBoy's suggestion next. But I thought I would go to Disk Utility and see if I could find any help. Disk Utility was able to see the CD. On the second tab, the erase tab, I found a eject button. That ejected the CD.
Elfen - guess I need to find a users guide for the powerbook - a eject key on the keyboard??!! Why did I not think of that? Dua!
After all of the above, I installed my Leopard DVD and booted to it. When I ran disk repair, it found several issues with my hard drive and repaired it. I can run permission repair and disk repair now and both come out clean. I suspect the bad disk was causing a lot of my problems.
Thanks every one for all the help.
jack
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Posted by: MikeatOSX on 2016-03-24 10:59:05
Look here:
https://support.apple.com/manuals/powerbook
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Posted by: mraroid on 2016-03-25 01:51:24
Look here:
https://support.apple.com/manuals/powerbook Yea! Manuals! Thanks so much!
jack
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