DVD & CD Not Able to Burn

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DVD & CD Not Able to Burn

I have an iMAC G5, with Matshita DVD-R UJ-846 which was successfully burning photos and DVD (from iDVD etc). However, now it is not accepting any blank disks and simply ejecting them (after a minute) and hence unable to copy / burn anything. These are the same make that worked before, and I have tried copying with disk utility, iDVD and Toast with no success.

Any suggested corrections and / or tests to run - if not can you swap the drive?

Thanks Neil

iMAC, Mac OS X (10.4.10), G5, Matshita DVD-R UJ-846

Posted on Sep 23, 2007 8:24 AM

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Answer 1

odenkun

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Sep 23, 2007 9:10 AM in response to njinnes

I have almost exactly the same problem. I also posted the question. Mine is PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K05. I am with you.

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Answer 2

Oct 9, 2007 5:19 PM in response to odenkun

sign me up for the fanclub, folks. I too have the non-burner. And now, difficulties with even reading DVD-Rs.

AARGH!!

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Guza

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Oct 13, 2007 8:12 PM in response to njinnes

I'm Trying to burn an MP3 disk from ITunes and I keep getting the error code "The Burner is in use by another application." When I go into force quite I don't see any applications running. I also went into disk options in the system prefrences and set ignor all applications when black CD is inserted.
As well as ensure no other applications were open, I was unable to see anything else running in the background.

Any ideas why this is happening?

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Answer 4

Oct 16, 2007 12:42 AM in response to kt misener

same here: I have pioneer DVR 103(firewire) and 108(buit in). Not able to burn and read DVD. I can read cd. It is driving me nuts! Reinstalled toast 6 titanium, and the update to 6.1.1 to no avail. I cannot pinpoint it to a software update. Can anyone of the previous posters nail the problem down to a system software update? Icannot think of another source of this problem.

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Answer 5

Oct 18, 2007 3:05 AM in response to thejanandonly

I'm out of trouble: I had a G5 that didn't need the drive (pioneer DVR117) took it out and tried it in my G4. Succeeded! Still I don't know why the other ones (103 and 108) failed. Maybe when I put them in a pc and run a firmware update from pioneer? I am not sure if I already did that.
Still a weird problem.

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njinnes Author

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Nov 11, 2007 10:59 AM in response to njinnes

Following hardware diagnostic tests, and over the phone support it was confirmed that the player needed to be replaced

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ghauck

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Nov 11, 2007 1:21 PM in response to njinnes

Same problem...reads and plays both cd and dvd, but ejects blanks disks. Seems to have started when I installed Leopard on my G5 (Power PC). No idea what to try ...

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