On a MacBook Pro laptop with the OS X operating system, I inserted a blank CD in the drive. When I opened Disk Utility, which is in the Applications/Utilities folder, it reported "This disc drive is busy. Please choose another one." The Eject option in Disk Utility was grayed out. I tried ejecting it with the
drutil utility from a shell prompt, which you
can get by using the Finder and selecting Terminal in
the Applications/Utilities folder, but that didn't work, either.
$ drutil eject
I was able to eject the CD by hitting the eject button at the top right
side of the keyboard (it is the one with an upward pointing triangle
with a horizontal line beneath it) on the MacBook Pro laptop. But when
I inserted that CD or another CD, I had the same issue. I finally realized
I had a Windows XP VMWare
Virtual
Machine (VM) running, which had control
of the CD-ROM drive. I no longer had the issue after
I shut down the VM. I was able to use the drutil eject command
to eject the disc then and the eject function within Disk Utility
then worked as well.
References:
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Another route to eject stubborn stuck CDs
Date: June 1, 2004
Mac OS X Hints
