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DVD/CD burning issues resolved

I too have been having many of the issues as others here. The "failed to calibrate laser power level", "medium errors" & "sense errors". I tried repairing permissions, cranking up the fans, new account, various media. None of those worked.

Then today I decided to use some compressed air and and appzapped toast 8 & 9. Voila everything works fine now...no coasters after 5 discs. All media that previously has not worked now works great(TDK +R, SONY +R, Verbatim -/+ R). I am currently using Burn. Cant believe it was this simple, for those who are still having issues give it a try.

Still seems weird that right after leopard installed months ago I got the errors, somehow the leopard dvd made the drive dirty?

Message was edited by: jhsiao

15" Macbook Pro 2.4 C2D, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Aug 18, 2008 6:05 PM

20 replies

Feb 15, 2009 9:37 AM in response to jhsiao

I´ve had the same problems for some time now.
Didn´t manage to find any solutions to his problems until I found this topic.
I´ll try using compressed air the coming days. Hope it works!

Anyways, thanks for tip!

Mar 21, 2009 8:00 PM in response to jhsiao

This worked for me too! It kinda reminds me of my old Nintendo. :-P

shiama

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Apr 25, 2009 7:28 AM in response to gtextor

I ll try this and see if I ll end up in a glorious end like many folks here...

BSJArt

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Apr 29, 2009 11:20 AM in response to jhsiao

Was having same problems. Before attempting to clean I called Microcenter because I still have a little time left on the warranty. Tech guy said download drivers. While looking I ran across this thread. Tried the air just now and can now read a disc I couldn't read a few minutes ago. Hopefully will help with the writing issues next time I have something to burn.

cyopst

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May 18, 2009 11:37 AM in response to jhsiao

5/18/2009. May I suggest, in my humble experience, since I have read other replies elsewhere to questions similar to this, note the speed on the disc. I have read the posts that recommend blowing compressed air into and over the CD/DVD laser lens in its compartment. I have read the replies elsewhere that tell to try a low speed, such as, 1x or 2x or 4x and so on. I have tried these with mixed results. What does work for me is this. I use Disk Utility for DVDs and where the window asks for speed of recording, i.e., best and 2.4x and 4.0x, the DVD DL--regardless of brand--says 2.4x so that is the speed of recording that I select. And it works, well, OK. Many regular DVDs say 16x speed on the top of their disc. That is greater leeway. Many CDs say up to 48x speed. Macintosh help says that earlier SUPERdrives would record DVD-R but not DVD+R. I simply suggest that one follow the recording speed printed on the disc itself or on its package. Roxio Titanium Toast 7, which I have, was no help for DVD DLs because it had no 2.4x speed to select. Best wishes. C. Yopst Chicago area

DVD/CD burning issues resolved