あまい！

[roadrunnertwice]

Update: Nope! Nope, nope, nope. Not at all. Know why I can't install Leopard? Because my optical drive is busted! It makes dying sounds, and doesn't mount media. Boo! Applecare has another box on the way to me. I am irritated. GEEZ.

I did learn something, though. If your drive isn't recognizing a disc and won't eject it when you hit the eject button, you can force an eject by going to the terminal and using the command drutil tray eject. Totally useful for getting that CD back before sending the box to the repair shop!

It occurs to me that, along with the hangover that kept me down until 10pm yesterday, this isn't the greatest collection of New Year's omens. >_>

Comments

[boopsce.livejournal.com]

Terminal commands like "drutil tray eject" bad.

Flashy buttons somewhere obvious that say "Seriously, cough up my CD" good.

[roadrunnertwice]

That's fair. My old tray-loading iBook had a little paperclip hole that acted as a secret "No, really, EJECT" button,* but they don't seem to have kept that feature on the slot-loading drives.

It's a consequence of optimizing for sleekness over transparency, and it's one of those issues where I don't come down on the same side each time. I'm using a sleek laptop, but when it came time to choose a text editor, I went with the transparent one instead of the sleek one.

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* There was still no regular hardware eject; like the current models, the G3 iBooks used a button on the keyboard that acted via the OS.

[indy1725.livejournal.com]

Handy tip:

You can force your mac to eject optical media by holding down the mouse button on startup.

It's a fact!

[roadrunnertwice]

Very true! I was going to try that if the mysterious shell command failed, but it proved not to be necessary.

The mouse-and-reset method is sure easier to remember, though...