CD drive for iMac G5

[Tearose]

I'm not sure if this is a hardware or OS question. I tried to view a CD I had burned on a PC, that the PC could not then read. My PC at work had no problem at all with it, but my iMac failed to show the CD was there. Without the CD icon on my desktop, I couldn't even find a way to eject it till I restarted the computer.Is there a default way of ejecting CDs in the iMac G5? I don't see a paper-clip hole, and cmd+E didn't do anything. I could hear the CD drive functioning when I put the CD in, and when I had it restart, it asked if I wanted to eject the CD, so why didn't it show up anywhere and allow me to access it?
Jill

 

[BabyJeffy]

If the CD was multi-session and the session had not been closed (by the Windows computer), then the Mac will probably reject it. Just a guess. The Windows machine (that created the CD) would still be able to see it... but other Windows machines (without CD writers/rewriters) may not.

It depends on the Mac hardware you are specifically talking about as to where the "CD Eject" button is. I recently noticed that there was a tiny button to the right in the CD slot of my G4 Powerbook... take a peek very closely at the slot for the harware you used. The manual eject (paperclip) method seems to be impossible with many of the newer drives (and indeed many of the older drives just had a microswitch in there that the paperclip triggered).

The "last resort" for ejecting a CD is to reboot and keep the mouse button down. This is no help to you if the fault is mechanical however.

Hope that explains some!
Jeff