Apple dvd player not ejecting code#
I added a button to the home screen to close XBMC and go to MacGo Blu-ray player and in the code to implement the button, I open and close disc utility in the background which causes the drive to accept the disc I want to insert. So in my case, my work around is from having customised the XBMC Skin. So I only use the drive for watching DVD's and Blu-ray's using MacGo Blu-ray player - so the disc is ejected right after watching and not left idling. That said, my Hack is used as an HTPC running XBMC. I have never notice an issue with ejecting. For lack of a better term, I have to "re-initialise" it by opening disc utility or going to System Profiler > Disc Burning. The only issue I've noticed is that when booted in to OS X (Mavericks 10.9.0-3 so far) the drive stops "accepting" discs. I got your PM, but I haven't posted enough on the forums to reply! Sometimes it appears in the command menu and works, sometimes it's greyed out and doesn't work and sometimes it appears in the command window (not greyed out) and doesn't work. Sometimes the Bluray works for several days through a few sleeps and wake ups, other times I power up the computer and it's working and a ten minutes later it's not. Another variable is that I never installed AHCI_3rdParty_SATA in this build because I had seen that others haven't and other than this Bluray issue it's been performing great without it (I'm not using the Marvel SATA ports though) so I'm not sure it's really necessary.Īaron97, I can disable putting all drives to sleep for troubleshooting purposes, but obviously that's not an acceptable solution. I do know I had Optiarc Bluray drives in hacks before which displayed the same or similar symptoms, but when I replaced them with the BDR-205's the problem went away and never came back. There seems to be a wide variety of intersecting subsets that are fixed by his kext, but I'm not completely confident that this is the issue I have. He states in the second thread that "From what I've read elsewhere, some brands of DVD drives won't allow sleep/shutdown to work properly unless there is a CD/DVD in the drive during those times." The issue seems to be with AHCI_3rdParty_SATA.kext and IOAHCIBlockSTorageInjector.kext and he has made a modified kext that fixes the issue for some people. He mentions he had problems with his Bluray drive with some of the same symptoms and referred to this thread:ĭVD Drive / Eject Button / DVD Player fixed:īy Dil83. This is a working drive taken out of another computer- I have 3 other drives of the same model in other Hacks that work correctly. Thanks for the reply Going Bald, sorry for the late response, I'm not getting my notifications when someone replies to the thread. Any help or suggestions will be appreciated. The Eject icon in the task bar says 'No Drives' when the mouse hovers over it. I can sleep and wake the hack several times and it continues to work other times it stops working when just sitting there idle. Rebooting restores operation for an undetermined period of time. There is an eject radio button also on the pop open window, but it doesn't do anything. The actions are Open Finder, Open iTunes, Open Disk Utility, Open other application and Run Script. Choose an action from the pop-up menu or click Ignore. I can sleep and wake it and it continues to work, but at some point it just stops working and gives me a pop open window saying "You inserted a blank DVD.
Apple dvd player not ejecting mac#
When I power on, the drive is there and I can open and close the tray from the task bar or from a Mac USB keyboard. In this ML build Sleep/wake, Shut down all work great with this board after a few BIOS settings were changed and it's been one of the easiest builds I've ever done. I also have 2 of these in a Lion build that have worked flawlessly (different motherboard though). The earlier build had a similar problem with an Optiarc BluRay burner, but after I replaced it with the Pioneer I had no further problems, so I was surprised when this drive started doing the same thing that the Optiarc did. It's a recent build but the drive was in another Snow Leopard build.
Z77X-UD5H BIOS F14 3770K 10.8.2 no add-in graphics card yet. I have the same issue with a Pioneer BluRay burner, It's a BDR-206. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide