Hardware :: Superdrive UJ845B Isn't Recognized?
Dec 31, 2005
I just replaced my dead superdrive with a panasonic UJ845B in my 15 inch Powerbook (titanium) 1ghz
System preferences says there's no information found. Unfortunately, my rampant searches on the internet have found nothing useful regarding this, so I can only assume a couple things...
1. The connection cable is bad somehow, though it powers up.
2. The drive just isn't compatable, despite it being advertised as compatable.
3. The powerbook has a conflict with the UJ845B being set to master with no conventional method to change it to slave other than to run some firmware.
Before I go nuts replacing cables and dismantling this thing again, I'd like to know if anyone else has had issues with replacing their superdrives. Perhaps not necessarily the same drive, but any experience where the system preferences reports no information found. It might not be as hard as I am imagining to get this thing functional.
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Mar 15, 2005
lets get this out of the way: I'm running Mac OS 10.3.8 on my Powermac G5, with a "HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GWA-4082B" Superdrive in it.
Initially, Itunes would not recognize this drive as a burner, and when attempting to burn a disc it gives me the notice "disc burner or software not found" When going into itunes preferences I get the message "No supported Disc burners found" beside where it normally says which kind of burner I have.
So i figured I'd see if it was the burner, or itunes that was giving me the problem. I put in a blank CD-R disc, and when the window popped up asking what to do with the blank CD i inserted, i chose to open Finder. It then spit out the disc and gave me the error message The disc could not be used because the disc drive is not supported. (Error code 0x80020025)This is NOT the drive that originally came with the computer, but it WAS installed by an official apple dealer. I originally had issues with the system booting from CD, and one thing they tried was ordering a new superdrive for me and installing it. The drive also read's any normal cd's fine though.
I'm not too keen on sending it back again.
Mac OS 10.3.8 on my dual 1.8ghz Powermac G5, with a "HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GWA-4082B" Superdrive in it.
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Oct 19, 2010
The old one crapped out on me, so I installed one from OWC on a iMac6,1, I have taken it apart many times to disconnect it and reconnect it. Could the ribbon be bad? If so, where can I get a part number? Or is it a generic ribbon for superdrives?
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Jul 27, 2008
I was thinking, for the next generation MacBook Air, would you want a slightly thicker (thickest part is 0.9in, tinnest is ~0.35in) laptop with a built in Superdrive, more ports, etc, or would you perfer that Apple moves away from this with a thinner computer (0.1in thinnest, 0.6in thickest), but with same limited ports.
I would actually perfer thicker with a superdrive, since I want an air but I want it to be like a MacBook but thinner. What do you think? Btw, this is assuming the regular MacBook does not change in size, since that would sway peoples opinions.
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Apr 13, 2008
I want to add a second SuperDrive to my Mac Pro and am trying to decide if I should git the Pioneer DVR-115D or go with a different drive. Or maybe go with a SATA drive and utilize one of the two additional SATA ports that are unused. Any ideas?
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Apr 15, 2009
Does anyone else have the same issue when you use the superdrive?
My goodness, it's crazy loud! Is it because it's missing a lot of it's housing so it can do the fun thing with the door?
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Dec 15, 2009
Just installed a superdrive in my MDD G4. It doesn't see blank DVD's or CD's.What did I do wrong this time?
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Feb 28, 2012
I had trouble burning a double layer DVD disk. Not sure if it was the drive or something else.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 11, 2012
all just wanted to find out if its possible to replace a superdrive from mac pro 1,1 into a mac pro 5,1 and have it work successfully?
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Mac Pro 1,1, Mac OS X (10.4.11), Dual-Core 2.66 GHz 2GM Memory
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Jun 9, 2012
Can I use the MacBook Air superdrive with another Mac, such as a MacBook Pro?
Info:MacBook Air (11-INCH, MID 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jul 3, 2009
What does it mean if I can;t burn DVDs because my Mac doesn't have a supported SuperDrive? How do I get one?
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Oct 23, 2009
i seem to have a problem with my airports performance lately, it seems to take ages to load up pages. is there anything i can do to boost its performance without actually having to buy peripherals. my second problem is that i want to connect my superdrive trough a hub but it seems to be impossible can any one plz help URGENT.
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Nov 24, 2010
the superdrive in my mini has been malfunctioning. Won't read a DVD or CD on the first try, and when it finally reads it, it's after a long time of spinning.
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Dec 12, 2010
I have iMac g5 with dead superdrive, and I need to reinstall mac OS X leopard. How I could do it? I mean, is there way to install from USB stick? I have asus x50n laptop with windows vista inside, maybe some how I could use it's dvd rom to my imac?
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Feb 21, 2008
Every time i try to burn a cd/dvd on my mbp no matter which burn application i choose.. the superdrive likes to rejeckt the medium since the 10.5.2 update and it says there was an intern error.
Is there a way to check what's wrong with my superdrive, what can i do?
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Feb 22, 2008
I just installed Windows XP Pro through Parallels. What a great program by the way. Here is my problem. When in Windows the Superdrive won't open. I have to log out of Windows to open it. Then I can insert a Windows CD and reopen windows and have access to it. Does anyone know how to open the drive through Windows
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Feb 25, 2008
I have a new Mac Pro coming tomorrow. My current PowerMac is dead, so I'm planning on doing the Migration Assistant by putting in my old Drive into the new Mac Pro. The question I have is: Is it worth putting in my old Superdrive into the 2nd slot? Even it is not the newer 16x speed?
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Apr 8, 2008
I would like to reinstall my MBA, I have not the superdrive, how can I proceed, I would like the next owner of my laptop to have my computer like New In Box.
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Jun 16, 2008
I've done searches here on this topic, and it seems like everyone gave in and picked up the Superdrive.
I've made a partition using bootcamp assistant, and I have an .iso of the legal disk. I used to install a VMware image, but I plan to replace it with the bootcamp image once I get that done; haven't even activated windows.
I have installed rEFIt; have the .iso and the files copied from the iso into the BOOTCAMP partition; but when it tries to boot to there, it complains about not being a system disk, or some such. One poster noted having two entries in rEFIt, and the useful one had something about a boot/cdboot.efi option, but I don't see that option in rEFIt anywhere.
Has anyone else made progress on this?
Also, it'd be great if one of these things could be made sticky, given the hassle it seems to be, and the several threads that have cropped up with questions, and not much in the way of answers.
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Jun 27, 2008
i know that the superdrive cannot be connected to the mini Via USB, which is a pain, but what if i were to buy the superdrive, take it apart and hook it up to my mini, replacing the Combo Drive already in there, Would that work i'm as assuming that it would all be compatible.
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Jan 22, 2009
Not as impossible as everyone says, and no hardware modding needed. Note this is currently any PC, not any Mac - it works on my MacBook Pro in Boot camp, but I haven't tried doing this in OS X yet. I will do tonight if I have time. Here's instructions anyway: [URL]
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Jan 31, 2009
So I've recently been trying to burn my ubuntu.iso to a CD, but every time I insert a blank CD the superdrive holds it for a few seconds then just spits it back out. I've tried to burn it with Disk Utility and Toast 9, but it just says it's waiting for the Superdrive.
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Mar 13, 2009
Anyone using anything decent or just chucking it in your bag and hoping it doesn't get scratched/dropped?
Currently using a modded leather square CD storage thingie, but it's a bit thick, kind of defeats the purpose. Wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fixed USB cable which gets snagged.
Strange that the usual suspects (Tucano etc.) haven't made a custom case for this peripheral.
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Apr 14, 2009
Just curious if its my mini or all slot loaded SuperDrive are extremely loud. I hear a loud fan and clicking when watching movies, or putting in cds. Is this normal?
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Jul 15, 2009
Is it normal for a DVD or CD to come out hot when you eject it from the Superdrive? I was listening to a CD on Mac Mini and when I ejected the CD, the CD was very hot.
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Aug 1, 2009
My early `08 mac pro has been having problems with it's superdrive, will not burn DVD's, and it's skipping on burning CD's. Can anyone recommend a good replacement drive.
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Nov 8, 2009
I am having trouble getting any DVDs to burn on my 2.2GHz SR MBP. I have tried using Toast as well as the Finder and I keep getting an error message. I have tried restarting the computer and trying a different brand of DVD. The drive can read DVDs just fine but I can't seem to burn anything successfully.This happened several months ago but went away when I retried burning the disk.
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Feb 25, 2010
I have a G5 PowerMac and it has a SuperDrive. I can still watch DVDs but I cannot burn them. When I put in a blank it just spits them out. I don't know if this has anything to do with it but my iDVD is not compatable with the version of OSX I am running. I can't even burn music onto a DVD from itunes. CDs work fine though.
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May 1, 2010
Sorry if this is a redundant question but how do you boot off a MBA superdrive.. does the disc show up on the desktop and you just choose to install it? I don't get what is happening internally on an Air.
I've never tried booting off USB before, in all my years on Mac, including the time I tried, but failed to boot off USB on a 1998 iMac G3 with no firewire.
MBA's have some superior USB power, right?
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May 7, 2010
I'm trying to boot frm the iso file to flash my run core drive to a new fw and after trying everything my MBA just doesn't recognize the drive. The drive however does pop up when the MBA is loaded in normal mode.
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