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#1
July 25th, 2005, 12:30 AM
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| G4 Superdrive Won't Detect Discs Hello, I recently installed several updates and now whenever I insert a blank dvd or cd-r, os x can't recognize it; no icon appears on the desktop. Here is everything I installed before the problem with my superdrive happened: iCal 1.5.5 security update 2005-002 2.0.0 * 2005-004 1.0 iPod updater2005-06-26 Mac osx update combined 10.3.9 I also tried leaving a blank dvd-r disc inside the drive and then restarted and I got a message saying that "osx couldn't recognize the disc inserted." I can however insert an already burned dvd or cdr and then everything is recognized and it plays fine. I've used the software utility twice to try and reinstall something that may have gotten erased from the updates but this hasn't helped. This is the second time i've had problems after installing updates. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!  |
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#2
July 25th, 2005, 05:58 AM
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| Check the CD & DVDs System Preference pane and see what it says.
__________________ PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8(Rev A.), , 7 Gig RAM, Pioneer DVR-110, ATI X800XT, OS X 10.4.11 & 10.5.3, 23'' HD LCD Mac Book Pro Core 2 Duo 2.16Mhz, SuperDrive, ATI X1600, 2GB RAM, OS X 10.5.3 Tibook 400Mhz, DVD drive, 1024 RAM, ATI Rage, OS X 10.4.7 1TB Time Capsule 5g iPod 30Gig White |
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#3
July 25th, 2005, 07:50 AM
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| We had few threads on superdrive issues by now. Check out search. And welcome to the forum.
__________________ iBook 600; 12''; 640mb; 8mb Rage; DVD-CDRW-Combo, 20GB P4 1.6; 2x80GB Raid1 (file-server) tiBook 1Ghz, Superdrive, 768MB, 64mb 9000, 60GB |
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#4
August 17th, 2005, 08:58 PM
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| Combo drive won't detect cdrs I've had this same problem for a while. I have a 700 mhz eMac with the combo drive. It used to burn cds just fine but at some point it stopped recognizing the disks (same pack of disks). It might have been when I went to 10.3 that I first had the problem, but I;m not sure. I checked my cd/dvd preferences and it says it will ask what to do when a blank disk is inserted. I insert a disk and nothing happens. |
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#5
August 18th, 2005, 05:11 AM
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| Hi guys, I had exactly the same symptoms with my PB and MacOSX 10.3.9. I reinstalled my burning software, i.e. Toast et voila... it worked fine again! A try won't hurt,.... i guess  regards Bobby |
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#6
August 19th, 2005, 02:11 PM
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| I installed Toast and it would not recognize a disk at first. After a few attempts it did, but about ten seconds into the burning progess it says there is a hardware error and ejects the disk. I guess I have a defective combo drive. It still plays CDs and DVDs, but won't write. If anyone has any other ideas I'd love to try them. Thanks. Last edited by robjewell; August 19th, 2005 at 03:51 PM. Reason: error |
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#7
August 19th, 2005, 03:50 PM
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| Hey, I figured out a solution! My business partner brought me some TDK CD-Rs and they worked just fine in my machine. I had tried several other brands which did not work. I know some of the disks that didn't work were by Imation (these disks used to work in my machine, I used at least 50 or 60 of them from this same pack without problem, but now they don't work). Some of the other disks that didn't work don't say what brand they are and may have been cheap disks (they do work in my windows machine at the office). I probably used other brands as well, but don't know which ones right now (I've had this problem for about a year now). I hope this info can save some other readers a bunch of time. Good luck. |
