On Oct 31, 2012, at 5:08 AM, MacBob61 <macbo...@cox.net> wrote: > While looking further into this, i did discover something interesting. If I > boot up the Panther install CD and run its Disk Utility, it sees the DVD > drive as well as the media in it perfectly fine! > > In my mind, this has to be a Leopard issue. My hope is that one of you who > are truly expert in OS X might point me to some configuration file that I > could modify in order to fix this. I wouldn't know where to begin to look.
This is remarkably peculiar, because Leopard was the OS version that completely did away with all the nonsense about 'supported' and 'unsupported' drives, and OS X went to an industry standard. What happens if you boot from your 10.5 installer disk? First thing to do is determine if it's a problem with the system or your user account. Create a new admin user, log off and log in as the new user. See if it works as expected. If not it's a system issue, if it does, it's something in your user settings somewhere. If it's a system issue: If you have Applejack <http://applejack.sourceforge.net/> installed, which I HIGHLY recommend, I'd run that first, see if it fixes things. Next I'd apply the latest 10.5 combo update. If THAT didn't work, I'd try re-installing the OS, but only as a last resort, you shouldn't need to do this sort of thing. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
