Harry, If this pops up again, you might try what I found. I was having the same problem with my MBP internal drive not burning music CDs. Figured it had just worn out, but couldn't understand why I could burn some DVDs. Found some blogs/ forums discussing problem and many suggested the following: when you get the window with the choice of burning at the maximum speed or slower speeds, click a slower speed. That solved my burn failures. Thanks for your suggestion, I'm sure mine could use a good cleaning too. Bill M.
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ~ Charles M. Schulz On Aug 28, 2011, at 5:28 PM, Neal Hammon <[email protected]> wrote: > Harry and anyone interested: > > I am running an old Dual 2GHz G5 Mac, on system 10.5.8. I have a backup > laptop, much newer, but I usually use the old G5. > > The dvd plalyer/burner is a replacement as the original unit went bad a > couple of years ago. > Now if I want to burn a CD using iTunes, I hit the burn button, and then when > it ask for a CD, I hold down the close CD tray key for about 30 second or > more, and everything works fine. If I just push the CD tray key, and let off > of the key when the door closes, it will not burn my CD's. > > Odd, perhaps, but by keeping the key down for a while, makes every thing > works fine. > > Neal Hammon > > > > On Aug 28, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > > I've been having trouble with the internal dvd player/burner. It wouldn't > burn CDs but would dvds (go figure). > I have an external CD Rom burner and was using that to burn CDs. > > (Oh, I can play CDs in both units.) > > Yesterday I wanted to burn a CD from within iTunes. The CD burner kept > rejecting my blank CDs and iTunes wouldn't recognize the blank CDs in my > external burner. > > My brother-in-law told me some CD burners were incompatible with some brands > of CDs so I googled that and among the hits was a forum where they were > discussing the problem of the burner not working. One of the respondents > suggested cleaning the burner. I just happened to have a CD cleaner DVD from > Radio Shack. I put that baby in my DVD player, ran the program, and, voilá, I > was able to burn the CD from within iTunes. > > Duh, could have had a V8! > > Hope some of you will be able to benefit from my tribulations. > > Harry > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
