iMac's Pioneer DVR-K06A: picky about discs?

Hi,
just got a imac 20" and find also a problem with my LaCie DVD external firewire drive.

It didn't recognize the open/close tray door.. in Toast.

Is it a firmware update or its about Toast?

jim

Hey, I'm having the same problem I think. Out of the blue my DVD drive started being really selective about what it can read and write with. But you didn't mention this, I'm wondering if you had it to: When I go into Disk Utility it says my hard drive (hard drive, not super drive) has reported a fatal hardware error and to backup all my files and replace the drive. But, the drive is working perfectly, as far as I can tell the only thing that's wrong is the DVD-R issues it's having with reading and writing. Any ideas? Am I going to have to erase my computer and switch it out?

My drive is the same and seems to be slow at copying files. Did you have this issue?

Aaron

just got a new 20" iMac and it wont write to Verbatim or TDK CD's and DVDs, even though they are the correct type. Is this a drive problem? I say thais as my MacBook Black has a Matsushita CD burner and it works fine.

Also, I am getting modem, bluetooth and airport icons blinking in the menu bar. Anyone got any ideas?

Hi,

I 've got nearly the same machine and I realized also a very slow reading CD-drive. Installing from the internal drive and also read in of music CDs takes very long time (3x to 5x). Otherwise the burning of CDs and DVDs is very fast. Up to now I have no idea for the reason of the low speed reading. Any hints, work around etc are welcome.

Best regards,
Steffen

I have a brand new iMac 20" 2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-K06A Superdrive.

Picky about discs. Slow reading / ripping, and won't boot from burned cds.

What to do... What to do?

I posted this on another thread, but thought this one might be more appropriate. I bought a 24inch 2.8 GHrz iMAC on Dec 30, 07. The optical drive would not recognize a blank disc (DVD-R or CD-R from several manufacturers). I tried everything including two hours on the phone with tech support. I took it back to the Apple Store and they very gave me a brand new identical machine. I brought it home and initially it seemed to work by now less than two weeks later - Same Thing! Today I was able to get iDVD to burn part of a DVD to a blank disc, even though it did not appear to mount of the desktop and afterward the disc icon displayed on the desktop, but when I went to play it only the first two chapters played and then it said it was "skipping damaged area" - Brand new disc! I asked the Genius at the store if they had seen other problems with this new optical drive and he said no. The only other things I have noticed is that the drive makes more noise than I expected and the discs are pretty hot when they are ejected, even after only a few minutes of trying to read. I'm taking this machine back to the Geniuses again tomorrow, but this situation doesn't sound to me like it is just one or two machines. I've owned Macs for 20 years and nothing like this.

I just helped my sister and my girlfriend buy new iMacs, both 24" 2.4GHz. with 500 GB drives. Ordered a week apart. Interestingly they came with two different drives: A Pioneer for my sister and a Matshita for my wife. Both ordered online from Apple. Why the two different drives is my first question.

But I can tell you the Pioneer is slow as molasses. Its read speeds seem pathetic. As a test I tried copying a Stargate DVD on each iMac using Mac The Ripper 3.0. The Matshita copied it in just over 9 minutes. The Pioneer took 44 minutes! - what is up with that? Even our 2 year-old iMac writes faster!

Message was edited by: RJ Currie

Message was edited by: RJ Currie

Yes the drive is very picky. As far as I can say the recorder has problems with fixing the laser when getting from layer one to layer two.

I've the same drive and have the same error with DL discs. But I finally found some DL discs that work with the recorder: Try DL Discs that were manufactured by the Richo Company. Brands like Phillips, Platinum etc are made by them and they work. I burned full the whole 8,5 GB and got no error. U can google for tools and sites that can give you some information.

At least I just hope that apple will bring out a firmware patch for the recorder.