Mac Mini :: Does Not Read CDs / DVDs (Optical Media)
Jul 2, 2009
I have a 2009 2.0 C2D Mac Mini that I upgraded to 4 GB RAM from the standard 1 GB RAM. It does not read CDs/DVDs or any other optical media. When I check the profiler for the SATA connection, I get:
OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5670S:
Model:OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5670S
Revision:2AHF
Native Command Queuing:No
Detachable Drive:No
Power Off:No
Async Notification:Yes
When I check the profiler for disc burning, I get:
OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5670S:
Firmware Revision:2AHF
Interconnect:ATAPI
Burn Support:Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache:2048 KB
Reads DVD:Yes
CD-Write:-R, -RW
DVD-Write:-R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies:CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media:Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds
It seems the controller is good and is seeing the DVD drive, but it just won't read anything included DVD movies and CDs that I bought off the shelf.
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Oct 17, 2007
The drive in my G5 tower will read/write commercial or blank CDs and will read/write blank DVDs, however, it will not read most commercial DVDs. When I insert them it tries to read it then after a few seconds it just spits them back out. Occasionally commercial DVDs will read and mount fine, but this seems to be rare.
Information:
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
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Dec 14, 2010
Ok so i have an early 2008 Mac Pro, that has been reformatted couple days ago. So when i install my softwares again and i realized some of the DVDs can't be read anymore, the drive just makes a certain sound every 5 secs or so and eventually it just ejects by itself. Now the weird part and the thing i just don't get is why it's only like that for certain DVDs.
For example, i was installing Ableton Suite 8 again, and there are 4 discs. For some reason disc 2-4 work but the Disc 1 doesn't read at all. And i know it's not a problem with the DVDs cause they work on my macbook pro and even my PC. And i tried to burn a copy of that disc 1 into a blank DVD and tried to run that to install and it worked, so it can't be any data issues or whatever with the DVD.
Is this a firmware issue? if so how do i fix this? I thought at first it could just be because i reformatted my mac recently and then this all happened. But i've reformatted my mac several times before and never had this problem. Or this is optical drive just laming out and its time to buy a new one?
But then again why does it work for some DVDs and not for others? It's just BUGGING me ALL DAY.
oh and the drive model is:
Sony NEC optiarc AD-7170A
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My Macbook Pro is barely 18 months old and is now refusing to accept any DVDs including the Leopard disc itself! Other discs such as Music CDs & CDr's work fine with no problems at all and to be honest I don't know what to do at all?!
I did not take out the Apple Care Plan as I was a student when I purchased the machine and could not afford the extra on top of what I was already paying! Having just spoke to someone from Apple over the phone they offered me a chat for �35 I think he said in his foreign lingo.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8), lion
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I am able to read the contents of the DVDs and open the individual files on the white MB but not on my MBPro: when I insert the disk, a finder window appears saying I have inserted a blank DVD and asks me how I wish to proceed in using it.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.8), Problem in iWork '08
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I have Windows XP 32 bit running under bootcamp on my early 2008 Macbook Pro.
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So I switched to Mac OS and tried playing the movie again from the dvd. When it played I noticed that it's playing normally and it's not a hardware issue that I'm having. So I thought that the problem was gone and I should check if the dvd would run smoothly on Windows like it's running under Mac OS. But when I tried it on Windows the problem was still there, the dvd is still running slowly.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Specification:
10.8.8
2.53ghz
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Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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iMac
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PowerBook G4 15", PowerMac G5 Dual 2.5
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