Cd Drive rejects all cd's!

We have exactly the same issue. DVDs ( Data + AV) & Blank CDs are fine but Audio and Data CDs are not working/ mounting. After a short time - perhaps 10-15 secs the CD is spit out by the drive. It's a brand new iMac 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo that we turned on just yesterday. I have reset the PRAM. Not sure what else to try. Given that the drive reads other things ok - I can't see that it's a hardware issue....Any thoughts?

Not sure if this is will help, but go to System Preferences CDs & DVDs pane.

Look at "When you insert a music CD." Make sure something is selected there, such as Open iTunes. If that is already selected, try selecting something else. If that works, set it back to Open iTunes.

The Mac is brand new so the prefs in system prefs are set to default. So yes Itunes should open. In fact I have now been able to open an audio CD and import it into iTunes as normal. - but the problem is now intermittent. I guess we'll need to keep an eye on it. I really don't want the computer to go back to the Apple Store... just a pain in the backside to reinstall everything...

Even if it is already set that way, I'm suggesting you change it to something else (to rewrite that preference file), such as "ignore." Once you see that it mounts to the desktop consistently without taking any action, select Open iTunes again.

If it is still unreliable when set to "ignore," I would consider other trouble-shooting. For example, you can create another admin user account in System Preferences Accounts. Log out and log in to that new account. Does the problem happen when using that account?

Hey, just wondering if you got the problem fixed. I've had my Mac for about 2 months and it just started this morning to not identify audio CDs. I've tried the suggestions listed in this discussion and it worked for one CD. Then didn't for the next attempt. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

My MacBook Pro has suddenly stopped accepting CDs and DVDs. The disk is initially ingested, but then it is ejected after a few seconds.I've tried the fixes suggested in the forum to no avail. Even blank CDs are ejected. This would seem to be a hardware issue no? Anyone have any idea of the cost of a new drive?

I came to the forum hoping for an answer. Surprised to find nobody has one. Nobody at Apple HQ is reading this?
The problem is intermittent. Now, after reading the postings here, I set all the "what to do" options to "ignore" and it started ti work. For how long? I don't know.

Brand new 20" iMac (2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo) circa October 2007.

DIscovered problem during install of Windoze XP. Disk drive would not mount CD. Obviously NOT a software problem as was trying to boot off of it.

I was able to make a duplicate disk on my MacBook, and was able to install. Peculiar?

Experimented with numerous CDs - the mac only ones are fine. The Windoze or hybrid ones do not mount.

Back to the store for service...

Does it also reject DVD's, such as the Mac OS X installation disk?

Try putting in a blank cd and tell us what happens.

Go into preferences/cd-dvd and see what the actions are.

You may want to set Open in iTunes for the cd


Hope this helps.

Great minds huh?