At 8:46 AM -0800 01/25/2006, Nat Hall wrote:
I have a G4 with a Pinoneer DVR-110 DVD burner installed.
The drive is practically brand new-- I bought it new 2-3 months ago.
I have burned only a few CDs with it in this time period, and I have
not yet even burned a DVD with it. The other day I tried burning a
DVD for the first time with Toast 6.0.9 but the burn failed part way
through and the Mac froze up. I had to do a cold reboot. (I am
running OS X 10.2.8, FWIW).
Doing this seems to have completely killed the drive for all practical
purposes. Is this possible?
Perhaps.
Does the drive show up at all in System Profiler?
If it doesn't, locate any kexts that Toast installed and eliminate
them. Reboot then look in Profiler again... IOW, make sure this
isn't a corrupted kext problem. By default OS X should be able to
use almost any CD/DVD drive to *read* media.
...worth a try at least.
I've booted into OS 9 to see if maybe it was an OS problem. Same result.
Do you have the appropriate drivers installed into OS 9 for this
drive? OS 9 does not have the universal capability to read like X
does.
- Dan.
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