In MAC, the dvd drive gets listed in finder only if a dvd is present. Else it's hidden.
In some rare cases, even after you inserted a drive, the disk might not be visible in finder and since there is no eject hardware button near the DVD, there doesn't seem to be a way for removing the disk.
Browsing around, found the following ways (from multiple sources) to eject the disk and re-insert it:
In some rare cases, even after you inserted a drive, the disk might not be visible in finder and since there is no eject hardware button near the DVD, there doesn't seem to be a way for removing the disk.
Browsing around, found the following ways (from multiple sources) to eject the disk and re-insert it:
- Force restart finder.
- Open disk utilities (Applications/Utilities/DiskUtility) and the drive should be available there. Right click on it and select eject.
- Command line always rocks. Run the following in a terminal: drutil tray eject
Thank you so much Chandra Mohan for your post, youve saved me from another headache! I accidentally pressed ignore on a blank dvd in my macbook pro, and it seems to have vanished!
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