What to do If a disc gets stuck

The SuperDrive media drives on some QuickSilver Power Mac G4s have no manual eject button. If a disc gets stuck, you can no longer resort to the "shove a straightened paper clip into the little hole" trick to extract the disc. So how do you remove a stuck disc? Try these tricks:

• Hold down the mouse button at startup.
• Start up into open firmware (press Command-Option-O-F as the Mac starts up). and type eject cd. To continue booting your Mac, type mac-boot.
• Hold down the Option key at startup, and when the Select Startup screen appears, press Command-period.

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