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super drive acting really weird

my super drive doesnt read anything!!! and i get this in system profiler

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/4805/stufrm8.png
heeelp plz

PowerBook G4 1.0 (Ti) Specs (M8859LL/A), Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Jul 17, 2007 3:57 PM

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Jul 18, 2007 9:02 AM in response to shuyo

Hi, shuyo. That is very odd indeed. In OS X 10.3.9's System Profiler, what should appear for your model in System Profiler is:

ATA-3 Bus:

MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-815:

Manufacturer: MATSHITA
Model: MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-815
Revision: D0CB [yours could be different]
Serial Number:
Drive Type: CD-RW/DVD-R
Disc Burning: Apple Supported/Shipped
Removable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal

You not only have some characters in your information replaced with others (LATSHITA instead of MATSHITA; 814 instead of 815; etc.), but your System Profiler doesn't even show the same categories of information. Are you really running OS X 10.3.9 on this Powerbook?

Jul 18, 2007 9:13 AM in response to shuyo

My superdrive is also acting weird. Seems to have started when I accepted update to ITunes (7.3.1) and QuickTime (7.2?)

Now it reads DVD's and plays them just fine.

When I load a music CD, I can browse it, and I can copy an AIFF file to the hard drive.

But when I try to run ITunes and play the CD, or if I try to import, or if I try to burn using ITunes, the ITunes ap hangs and requires a 'force quit.'

I can use an external CD on firewire or USB, and there is no problems using ITunes. The problem is only using a music CD in the superdrive in ITunes.

Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Jul 18, 2007 10:16 AM in response to NoVaBlue

Hi, NoVaBlue, and welcome to Apple Discussions. I suspect your problem has much more to do with the iTunes and QuickTime updates than with your drive itself. And since your problem is entirely different from the one described by the original poster above, I suggest you repost your question as a New Topic in the appropriate iTunes forum (see link near upper left corner of topic list on this page). Good luck!

Jul 18, 2007 10:51 AM in response to shuyo

yes i'm positive that im runnign 10.3.9 and i find this really weird too ... and since the drive is being confused i cant make a firmware update to make it work u.u i was thinking of something like deleting the optical drive drivers (or whatever identifies the drive) and then trying to re install the drivers or something....
also i was going to try booting my computer with the optical drive disconected and then boot it again with the drive conected (idk if it will work)
so i am still counting on you for an answer XD

Edit:
now i see where the confusion is about
the program i used to check my hardware was informac (dont know where it came from....) this is the screenshot of system profiler

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/8477/problemhk6.png

Jul 18, 2007 11:18 AM in response to shuyo

Hi, shuyo. Thanks for sorting out the confusion caused by using Informac — a handy utility that I also use sometimes, but of course not the same thing as System Profiler.

It appears that your Tibook has a different Superdrive in it from mine. Apple may have used different drive models in earlier and later 1GHz Tibooks (mine was built during the final week of production), or perhaps someone has replaced the original drive in yours with an aftermarket unit. Your drive is reported to be unsupported for disc burning, a problem that might be addressed by downloading and installing PatchBurn. But that doesn't explain why it can't even read discs. Maybe the drive is just dirty, in which case a DVD drive cleaning kit from your local video store might take care of it.

As for why you have the "@" symbol in place of "A" in the System Profiler information about your drive, I'm completely mystified. Open System Preferences and click on the International icon. In the International pref pane, click the "Input Menu" tab. Which keyboard layout is checked in the list that appears? Perhaps that has something to do with the wrong characters appearing in your System Profiler. But I'd be a lot more inclined to think so if "ATA" were being displayed in your System Profiler as "@T@". I just don't know what's going on there.

Jul 18, 2007 1:59 PM in response to shuyo

i used patch burn and now it says its supported by manufacturer , its already recognized as a burner by disk utility but not by toast or any other prog... still i think it wont work... disk utility has like 5 minutes "wating for the drive"
... my most chaotic theory points towards the previous user changing the firmware and failing at it.... i hope thats not the case....

Jul 18, 2007 2:41 PM in response to shuyo

If a drive cleaning kit doesn't sort things out for you, my recommendation would be to replace the drive. Replacement units are cheap enough now so it really isn't worth the time and trouble of figuring out what's wrong with the old one. If there's any hardware problem with it other than dirt, it can't be fixed anyway.

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