I just bought a Lacie Porsce dvd burner. How do I eject the tray? It doesn't show up at all as a drive. I just went to the Lacie site and saw nothing in regards to this. Can anyone help?
that worked but when u have an internal burner (iMac intel) how do i eject the Lacie with the button on the key board?
I don't think you can as there's no way for one button to know what drive you mean to eject so it tends to just eject the internal. I can't remember if it ejects both drives if you have discs in them. I never use the eject key to eject discs.
I have an external Lacie burner with a button on it and I use that to open the tray and to eject it and the internal slot loader, I just use the Finder eject icon in the sidebar.
I do have customized keyboard mappings though and I used a piece of software called ControllerMate. That would allow you to bind any of your keys to a shell script that opened the tray you wanted. You can probably also map alt-eject to mean the other tray - you might want to check if alt-eject does what you want first, Apple like to use alt and control at random to deal with multiple options.
You could just put a shell script on your desktop or dock with execute permissions and when you clicked it, it would eject the drive.
I don't think you can as there's no way for one button to know what drive you mean to eject so it tends to just eject the internal. I can't remember if it ejects both drives if you have discs in them. I never use the eject key to eject discs.
I have an external Lacie burner with a button on it and I use that to open the tray and to eject it and the internal slot loader, I just use the Finder eject icon in the sidebar.
I do have customized keyboard mappings though and I used a piece of software called ControllerMate. That would allow you to bind any of your keys to a shell script that opened the tray you wanted. You can probably also map alt-eject to mean the other tray - you might want to check if alt-eject does what you want first, Apple like to use alt and control at random to deal with multiple options.
You could just put a shell script on your desktop or dock with execute permissions and when you clicked it, it would eject the drive.
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You can do it via the command line using drutil.
Using /Applications/Utilities/terminal type in:
drutil list
When you hit return, it shows connected burners and a drive number.
then just use:
drutil -drive <number> tray eject
I have two burners on my computer so I could use something like:
drutil -drive 2 tray eject
You can do this using CD/DVD burning software like Toast. Possibly Liquid CD.
You can do it via the command line using drutil.
Using /Applications/Utilities/terminal type in:
drutil list
When you hit return, it shows connected burners and a drive number.
then just use:
drutil -drive <number> tray eject
I have two burners on my computer so I could use something like:
drutil -drive 2 tray eject
thanx
that worked but when u have an internal burner (iMac intel) how do i eject the Lacie with the button on the key board?
that worked but when u have an internal burner (iMac intel) how do i eject the Lacie with the button on the key board?
I don't think you can as there's no way for one button to know what drive you mean to eject so it tends to just eject the internal. I can't remember if it ejects both drives if you have discs in them. I never use the eject key to eject discs.
I have an external Lacie burner with a button on it and I use that to open the tray and to eject it and the internal slot loader, I just use the Finder eject icon in the sidebar.
I do have customized keyboard mappings though and I used a piece of software called ControllerMate. That would allow you to bind any of your keys to a shell script that opened the tray you wanted. You can probably also map alt-eject to mean the other tray - you might want to check if alt-eject does what you want first, Apple like to use alt and control at random to deal with multiple options.
You could just put a shell script on your desktop or dock with execute permissions and when you clicked it, it would eject the drive.
I don't think you can as there's no way for one button to know what drive you mean to eject so it tends to just eject the internal. I can't remember if it ejects both drives if you have discs in them. I never use the eject key to eject discs.
I have an external Lacie burner with a button on it and I use that to open the tray and to eject it and the internal slot loader, I just use the Finder eject icon in the sidebar.
I do have customized keyboard mappings though and I used a piece of software called ControllerMate. That would allow you to bind any of your keys to a shell script that opened the tray you wanted. You can probably also map alt-eject to mean the other tray - you might want to check if alt-eject does what you want first, Apple like to use alt and control at random to deal with multiple options.
You could just put a shell script on your desktop or dock with execute permissions and when you clicked it, it would eject the drive.
Thanx Marvin,
You were very helpful!!!