On Feb 12, 2004, at 3:46 PM, Aaron Willems wrote:
I have a stuck CD-ROM drive. I need to open the tray door. Tried the paper
clip, tried holding down the mouse button on restart, and also tried holding
the eject key on startup. I need to boot into open firmware, so I can eject
the CD tray. I can't recall the procedure. Can someone post the directions
for me.
If the paper clip doesn't work, then the CD-Rom is mechanically broken, and the OF command won't open it either.
IIRC it's command-option-O-F
are you sure you:
a) pushed the clip in far enough/hard enough? I've had drives that required a LOT of paper clip at some fairly strong force to get them to pop open
b) didn't poke it's poor LED 'eye' out instead of pushing the release? (I did that once...ONCE, and my co-workers have never let me live it down)
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