Get a new optical drive. The old ones suck anyways. I have two powermac g4's both with stock apple DVD drives. Both of these drives will read DVDs, just not cd's very well.-Jonas
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Kris Tilford <ktilfo...@cox.net> wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2008, at 12:14 AM, Paul wrote: > > > Is there a firmware upgrade that will allow the drive to read more > > discs, or at least some documentation that explains what it will and > > won't read? > > I don't know, the older DVD units had trouble with some types of > discs, and I think your model may have been "DVD-R" only, no "DVD+R". > You should try upgrading the firmware to the last version. You may > need a PC to flash? Finding firmware for these 5+ year old drives is > getting hard, the sites are changing and dropping all the old stuff. > You'll likely need to use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to > find firmware. Here's a link to some firmware: > > < > http://web.archive.org/web/20080122073715/http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?category=1&manufactor=18 > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
