So, I was using my UB MacBook earlier today. I had a CD in the superdrive. I was shutting down the computer, and all of a sudden, as the screen was going black, the disk in my computer came out half way and the superdrive made a noise. I quickly restarted my computer to see what went wrong. I tried putting the CD back in, it didn't work. You all know how the slot loading superdrives suck in CDs. I now slide the CD in, and it won't get sucked in. In fact, the whole CD won't even go in. A little bit of it still sticks out. So now I'm stuck with a dead superdrive wondering what to do to fix it.
The last time I tried to insert a disk it would not go in, something (not a disk) was stopping it once it had traveled about half way in.
I then noticed that when waking from sleep or turning on, the normal noise was very different, cut short, and sounded like it was struggling against something.
I believe the mechanism of the drive has somehow failed. Does anyone have any solutions?
It is a iBook G4 1.33GHz with 1.25GB ram installed if that helps.
I put in a cd that my computer was unable to read. I tried to eject it using disk utility but it failed. I read that another option was to restart the computer and hold down command, option, o, and f at the same time to open disk firmware to eject it. instead of actually working, my computer froze at the rstart screen, and i have no idea what to do - and i am unable to insert a disc.
I picked up a 13" '08 Macbook pro, everything's great apart from a dvd being stuck in the drive.
I've tried all the usual tricks that come up on google, holding eject/trackpad on start up, eject in commands/itunes and the thin piece of card under/over the disc but nothing has worked.
When holding eject it sounds like the disc hits something as it tries to eject but due to the felt I can't see inside to see what it is?
Im using a 17" unibody macbookpro 2.66 early 09 to make a copy of my Leopard Disc to put in an offsite storage location. Im able to rip movies and burn movies (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-DL), iMovie videos, iTunes cds, rip audio discs, etc. The media is Dual-Layer DVD-R in disk utility I burn it at the slowest possible speed (on both systems) at 2.4x
After it writes the data to the disc and finishes, i get this lovely image:
I tried doing a test install of it from the burned dvd and it installed fine.... = what the huh!?
its done this twice. using the same media on a 15" 2.2ghz uMBP late 2008 gives me a completed successfully notification every-time.
burn info:
17" Superdrive info: HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS21N:
Model: HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS21N Revision: SA17 Serial Number: KZZ91OM5217 Native Command Queuing: No Detachable Drive: No Power Off: Yes Async Notification: No
15" Superdrive info:
MATSHITADVD-R UJ-868:
Model: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-868 Revision: KA14 Serial Number: dE0E4283 Native Command Queuing: No Detachable Drive: No Power Off: Yes Async Notification: No
Log Files from the 17" uMBP
Here are the Disk Utility Logs
Quote:
2009-08-23 15:19:30 -0700: 2009-08-23 15:50:48 -0700: Eject of �disk2s3� succeeded 2009-08-23 15:50:51 -0700: Burning Image �Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg� 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: Image name: �Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg� 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: Burn disc in: �HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS21N� 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: Erase disc before burning: No 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: Leave disc appendable: No 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: Verify burned data after burning: Yes 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: Eject disc after burning 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: expected CRC32 $0F91EA17 2009-08-23 15:51:02 -0700: Preparing data for burn 2009-08-23 15:52:25 -0700: Opening session 2009-08-23 15:52:31 -0700: Opening track 2009-08-23 15:52:31 -0700: Writing track 2009-08-23 16:11:26 -0700: Finishing burn 2009-08-23 16:12:26 -0700: Closing session 2009-08-23 16:12:28 -0700: Finishing burn 2009-08-23 16:14:05 -0700: Burn failed 2009-08-23 16:14:05 -0700: The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry. 2009-08-23 16:14:16 -0700: Unable to burn �Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg�. (The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.) 2009-08-23 16:21:59 -0700: Attach Image �Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg� 2009-08-23 16:21:59 -0700: Initializing� 2009-08-23 16:22:00 -0700: Verifying� 2009-08-23 16:22:00 -0700: Verification completed� 2009-08-23 16:22:00 -0700: expected CRC32 $0F91EA17 2009-08-23 16:22:00 -0700: Attaching� 2009-08-23 16:22:00 -0700: Checking volumes� 2009-08-23 16:22:01 -0700: Operation canceled by user. 2009-08-23 16:22:02 -0700: Volume check completed� 2009-08-23 16:22:02 -0700: Mounting� 2009-08-23 16:22:02 -0700: Finishing� 2009-08-23 16:22:03 -0700: Finishing� 2009-08-23 16:22:03 -0700: Image �Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg� attached successfully. **********
Here is from ~/Library/Logs/DiscRecording.log
Quote:
Disk Utility: Burn started, Sun Aug 23 14:57:02 2009 Disk Utility: Burning to DVD+R DL (RICOHJPN D01) media with DAO strategy in HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS21N SA17 via ATAPI. Disk Utility: Requested burn speed was 2x, actual burn speed is 2.4x. Disk Utility: Burn failed, Sun Aug 23 15:19:01 2009 Disk Utility: Burn sense: 4/09/02 Hardware Error, Focus servo failure Disk Utility: Burn error: 0x80020022 The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry. Disk Utility: Burn started, Sun Aug 23 15:51:02 2009 Disk Utility: Burning to DVD+R DL (RICOHJPN D01) media with DAO strategy in HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS21N SA17 via ATAPI. Disk Utility: Requested burn speed was 2x, actual burn speed is 2.4x. Disk Utility: Burn failed, Sun Aug 23 16:13:34 2009 Disk Utility: Burn sense: 4/09/02 Hardware Error, Focus servo failure Disk Utility: Burn error: 0x80020022 The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.
I made a backup image file of D2 LOD and im trying to install it again but the installer keeps telling me that i need to insert disc. So my question is, how do i mount this image so that the installer can use it.
Clarification: I lost the original cd so i just have this backed up image, so the image is legit.I just wanted to play this game and i dont wanna have to go buy the disk again.
so i have my two disks to redo the hard drive so i did that and i wanted the hard drive erased so i chose that option i put the first disk in it checked the disk then installed then asked for the second disk...no checking just an error message that i should check the disk and the internet connection ok well internet is fine checked the disk called apple and verified that i had the right disk and not my imac one.....im lost and kinda need my laptop i have a leopard disk i tryed - put it in turned the computer off turned it back on pressing c installed it and after it said sucsessful instalation we need to restart bam the restart page was please insert disk 2 for the sake of trying again i did ta da error message -sigh-
having read all the posts about the superdrive failures, mine seems to have died although it is a strange one. It's a Pioneer 107D and it reads, writes, and ejects if a disk is in it (sometimes)...however it will not open (without my trusty paperclip) from keyboard, fkey, drag disk to trash, startup with mouse button held, etc. etc. Terminal mode (drutil etc.) says drive is ok as does About my Mac. I can hear the mechanical attempts to open, but only the ol' paperclip seems to do the job. Any thoughts??? If I replace it are there any thoughts as to what people find reliable? I am thinking Litescribe at the moment (I do not "need" DL or BluRay).
Information: G5 dual 1.8 Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.11) 1 gig ram
I have a pretty old (4-5 years old?) PowerBook G4, running 10.4.11. Recently the superdrive quit playing commercial DVDs. It will recognize CDs without a problem, but when I insert a DVD, the drive makes noises like it's reading the disc for maybe 20-30 sec. and then ejects the disc. I also tried to install Photoshop, but the drive wouldn't read the instal DVD either.
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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