I hope the following photos are self-explaining as to what has to be done to "fix" the Apple Superdrive "ejecting" issue. The small rubber pad just needs to be "boosted" by placing another small rubber/foam pad (the same thickness), on top of the existing one (or a double thickness pad if your unit has no small rubber pad in the first place). What needs to be done is just to follow-up on Apple's "fix" effort, but one better. So after looking around youtube, I got an idea from a youtube video (thanks to " TheHobbieCollector "), and did it one better. but it was still not ejecting discs like it should. Here's the problem though, I my case, I had that small rubber piece in my Superdrive …. So what they did was a "fix" where a piece of rubber was added to the internal component, that raise the internal drive better to allow the disc to eject better. This small square foam rubber pad is not evident on some earlier Apple Superdrive units, indicating that Apple had figured out the internal unit was "hanging up" some disks inside by not being aligned with the slot properly (the tolerances were obviously designed very tight by Apple. If you are able to open the bottom plate of the Superdrive, take it off, you'll see that Apple has placed a small black foam square pad (about 1/2" square), at the top of the internal unit (at the top near the entrance slot).
Well, it looks like they may have tried to make a fix on some of the more recently produced Superdrives, I'll explain …. You would have thought they would have bench tested the current Superdrive design, and fixed this issue before releasing it for sale. completely unacceptable coming from Apple.
I would have to turn the dive upside down to get it to eject the disk in it …. I too had a major problem with the Apple External Superdrive not ejecting many of my DVD and CD disks.
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