10.5.3 CD driver fails to acknowledge media when tray closed manually

Just filed this in Radar and was curious to know if anyone else had seen the same problem after updating a G5 to 10.5.3.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Eject drive tray

2. Place disc in tray

3. Press tray inward to close

4. Note nothing happens; not even an attempt at spinning up

5. Re-eject drive tray and leave disc where it sits

6. Close tray programatically (i.e. through iTunes, or drutil)

7. Driver now detects the media, spins up and mounts volume as expected.

I know that there is nothing wrong with the drive because this works fine when I boot back into 10.5.2. It can't be a problem with the media because it isn't even making an attempt to read it; it's like it doesn't even recognize the fact that I closed the tray. I'm guessing that the IL6 testers didn't include anything other than slot-loaders in their testing matrices before greenlighting this one, but who knows.


Regression:

System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.3 (9D34)
Kernel Version: Darwin 9.3.0

Model Name: Power Mac G5
Model Identifier: PowerMac7,2
Processor Name: PowerPC 970 (2.2)
Processor Speed: 1.8 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 1
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 900 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.0.5f0

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D:

Capacity: 478.6 MB
Model: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D
Revision: A606
Serial Number: CHDL0169 ** <Edited by Moderator>
Removable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk2
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal
Low Power Polling: No
Mac OS 9 Drivers: No
Partition Map Type: Unknown
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported

G5, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on May 29, 2008 12:00 PM

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Jun 5, 2008 1:40 AM in response to ConcreteMark

hi orangekey,
apple responded to my bugreport 😟


Please know that our engineers have not been able to reproduce this reported behavior.

We could not reproduce this on Core2Duo MacBook Pro with 10.5.3. We pushed the button on the drive to eject the tray, inserted a disc and hit the button to close the tray. The disc was automatically detected by the Finder without any intervention. We are using a external TDK DVD-RW USB drive.

This could be a vendor specific issue with your drive.

Should you continue to encounter this issue, please provide any information that would assist engineering in reproducing this reported behavior.

We consider this issue closed. Thank you for taking the time to notify us of this issue.

Best Regards,

Ted Fawcett
Apple Developer Connection

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