on 1/27/05 8:15 PM, Laurence Harris <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 1/27/05 9:01 PM, Mark Lilback didst favor us with:
>
>> At 6:08 PM -0500 1/27/2005, Laurence Harris wrote:
>>> There are other ways, but none of them is as easy as the Eject button, and
>>> none of them will work while the computer is starting up.
>>
>> Holding the mouse/trackpad button down at boot will eject the disc.
>
> However, this is one of those little-known things often referred to
> euphemistically as a "power user technique." Pretty much everyone can figure
> out how to eject a disk with the eject key. ;-)
Yes, and I can no longer find this little tidbit in the manual that came
with my Mac. Seems to me it used to be there. Isn't it a basic necessity?
I've never had much of a problem and not needed to do it.
The eject key doesn't help you a bit to get a CD in in time to boot from it.
You might think you could eject, insert the CD, and boot again, but there
are cases when that doesn't help, such as when the hard drive is the startup
disk, and will start to boot but then crashes. Something like this has
happened here several times over the last several years. I know I've
absolutely depended on the mouse button, and not knowing about it is a poor
reason to take the system in for repair when all you had to do was run First
Aid off a CD, or reinstall a system.
-Kurt
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