I just tried to put a DVD into my iMac and it ejects it after about 15 seconds. I tried another DVD and it does the same! I bought the Mac December 2010 so I no longer have Apple Care. it doesn't need a new drive!
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 2010 500GB HD, 4GB RAM, 3.06GHz i3
I recently had to reinstall iTunes with help from tech support after it kept crashing and now my disc drive is ejecting any disc that I put into it.
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
As title says... notebook is reading and accepting that the Superdrive is there, but when a disc is inserted, it spins for 15-30 seconds and ejects.
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I have never had any problems with this SuperDrive, until I installed Toast last week. I went to burn a disk, and it failed the burn; then after that any kind of disk I inserted into the drive would be ejected.
The drive doesn't even try to read it, nor does it try to spin up whatsoever... I put the disk in, it makes an 'accepting' noise, then less than two seconds later, it rejects it. I'm running 10.6.4, with HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N running AP12 firmware.
Like I said before, the disk drive never had trouble reading anything, but all of a sudden decided to reject every one under the sun.
Restarting in Windows doesn't effect it, nor does inserting a disk before the computer boots. Everything appears normal in diagnostics, but the drive is not even trying to read it.
Why my mac keeps on ejecting discs after about 5 - 6 seconds. Tries to read the disc, then ejects.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Now I've searched for a solution and as a result I've reset the NVRAM to no avail, and also tried using a CD lens cleaner but that seemed to have no effect either, I guess maybe as it got ejected within just 30 seconds as every other disc does.Â
The next solution I've found online is to delete Finder's preference files. The files I'm supposed to delete are "com.apple.finder.plist" and com.apple.sidebars.plist", however neither of these files appear to exist on my computer. Â
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
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imac
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Macintosh HD Boot Mode:
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
