Bruce Johnson wrote:
> On Dec 22, 2008, at 12:06 AM, Paul wrote:
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> ONe of the LEM powerbook lists (the gbook list perhaps) just had a
> discussion about this with specific brand mentions.
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The op is the same on both lists.
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Ah, thanks for reminding me about the good old swaplist. I have two
Pismos with identical DVD-ROM drives with identical fussiness, but I
think they're Matsushita and not LG.
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On Dec 22, 9:57 am, Bruce Johnson
wrote:
> On Dec 22, 2008, at 12:06 AM, Paul wrote:
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> > What's much more painful is dealing with a similar but worse version
> > of this problem on my Pismo. It's fussy about brands, and probably
> > about DVD-R vs. DVD+R, and probably just plain fussy abo
On Dec 22, 2008, at 12:06 AM, Paul wrote:
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> What's much more painful is dealing with a similar but worse version
> of this problem on my Pismo. It's fussy about brands, and probably
> about DVD-R vs. DVD+R, and probably just plain fussy about homemade
> DVD's as opposed to DVD's whose data was
I think I did update the firmware to the latest one I could find. It's
not even a burner, just a DVD-ROM drive. I suppose the first thing is
to try a cleaning disc, since it might just work.
Failing that, it's not that expensive to get a DVD reader or even a
burner.
What's much more painful is d
At 8:13 AM -0800 12/21/08, PeterH posted:
> On Dec 20, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Paul wrote:
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>> The Matsushita SR-8585F is labeled "Apple" and came with some G4's and
>> possibly other Macs. I've tried a few rewritable DVD's without luck
>> reading them, even though they're known to be good, since
On Dec 20, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Paul wrote:
> The Matsushita SR-8585F is labeled "Apple" and came with some G4's and
> possibly other Macs. I've tried a few rewritable DVD's without luck
> reading them, even though they're known to be good, since other DVD
> readers on other machines can read them
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 wrote:
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> On Dec 21, 2008, at 12:14 AM, Paul wrote:
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> > Is there a
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
The Matsushita SR-8585F is labeled "Apple" and came with some G4's and
possibly other Macs. I've tried a few rewritable DVD's without luck
reading them, even though they're known to be good, since other DVD
readers on other machines can read them.
Is there a firmware upgrade that will allow the d
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