How can I open and close an optical drive remotely?
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What should I use as an archive if I cannot trust modern external hard drives?
Whenever I try to eject removable storage media, I am warned that an application might still be using them. Why?
Trying to install Ubuntu on my Boot Camp partition crashed my iMac, and it will not now boot from its install optical disk. How can I recover it?
Is it possible to access an optical drive using Target mode?
The optical drive in our iMac refuses to read most disks, normally spitting them out even though the disks have usually spun up inside. What is wrong with it?
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