I dont know how to open

[chelvis]

I bought the newest Mac (OS10) and I cant open the cd rom drive. There is not button for me to push it and open. I only used PC all the time. So I dont know anything about Mac. How do I open the cd rom drive?

[sad69]

I'm not sure if this is really how u do it, but you might try dragging the cd rom drive onto the trash can.. lol, I know it sounds odd but it might just work.... used to pop my disk out for me in elementary school :D

PS. If it's so new, ask the guys u bought it from, or read the manual maybe..?

Good luck,
Sadiq.

[l3vi]

I think you control, alt, or apple click the icon, then a dropdown menu, similar to the right click menu on PC, will come down. THen you should be able to click eject.

[gsnedders]

What type of mac is it?

[liorean]

What Mac is it (PowerMac/PowerBook/iBook/iMac)?

It should be F12, but you might have to use fn+F12 depending on your settings. If that doesn't work, and there's a disc in the drive, you can just drag it to the trash, or right click/ctrl click and use the eject command. If your keyboard has a media eject button, you can use that as well.

The Mac help is useful for this. Seach for 'keyboard' and 'eject', and you'll find something on it.

[gsnedders]

liorean, F12 only works on the PowerBook (which I've got) and the iBook (which you've got), however, on desktops, above the number pad *, there is an eject button, which will open it.



I think you control, alt, or apple click the icon, then a dropdown menu, similar to the right click menu on PC, will come down. THen you should be able to click eject.

In Finder it's CTRL, and in many games it's apple.

[liorean]

That might be true. I don't have a *Mac to test it on. However, the Panther help lists it, but I guess that help might be customised for portables.

Still, I think the Apple help wil tell you exactly what you need if you look it up.

[gsnedders]

I used to use my Dad's iMac G3, learnt it from there, F12 doesn't work.

[oracleguy]

This is why just making a button on the drive is so much easier. :p

[sad69]

This is why just making a button on the drive is so much easier. :p

:thumbsup: :D

[gsnedders]

This is why just making a button on the drive is so much easier. :p

Not so sleak, but the slot loading drives are nice and easy, the original drive-loading iMac G3 was the last one to have one.

[liorean]

Well, the problem here lies in that the Apple system relies on software control of drives as traditional in Unix, while Microsoft on the other hand rely on determination-of-media-at-request.

In short, anything you are mounting MUST be unmounted before the media is removed. Therefore software control of the actual ejection mechanism is a requirement for reliability in the Unix and Mac systems, but not in the Windows systems. It can be added that the Windows system of media handling produces far larger overheads and access times compared to the Unix system, at the cost of required software control.



An analogy can be drawn in this - where the Windows media handling is represented by DOS and the Unix/Mac media handling is represented by a modern Windows. In DOS you could turn off the computer pretty much at any time, because very little crucial data modification was taking place in memory and programs could only be run one at a time. In Windows, where you need to load and manipulate crucial data and then write it back to disk when turning the computer off, you instead have a software way of turning the system off. The one system has the benefit of being easily manually handled. The other system has the benefit of stability in a more complex system, gaining higher performance because you can rely on that method being used in at least a majority of the cases.

You can only get either, not both.