Drive won't read any dvd-ejects it automatically after spinning some time

Same problem here. CD-ROMs are doing fine but any DVD is ejected after spinning for some time. Had to use an external USB DVD-drive for installation of snow leopard.
Superdrive is MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857D, Firmware KBVB.

Flo

I've had this problem for some time with three different Macs. All of them eventually refused to read any DVDs, though CDs were sometimes fine. Burning is unpredictable even for CDs and rarely works at all for DVD media. Its not the media that is the problem as the machines can read all my problem disks from external DVD drives (I have a LaCie with an NEC mechanism).

Started with a powerpc mac mini, then an intel imac and an intel mac mini. All the drives were Matshitas (the intel Imac is a MATSHITADVD-R UJ-846 firmware: FB2U ); I'm not sure of the models on the Mac Minis, but both were Matshitas. The iMac had its drive replaced under warranty, but the same problem occurred again in less than a year (obviously after the applecare had expired).

I keep searching for fixes but have found none. It is a worrying problem that will put me off upgrading to any other machine with a slot-loading drive until resolved. Is it firmware or hardware? Are apple drives just too fussy compared to others?

Just adding my name to the list of those that can not get their Matshita super drives to mount a DVD. Mine is on a MBP, worked alright on my MacMini.

It does mount CD's but no luck with a dvd movie or dvd software (including Snow Leopard). Had to install Snow Leopard with a remote drive.

Glad to hear I am not just going crazier thinking that I was again out of luck because out of warrantee my DVD drive was not working for sometime now.. Just read on appleinsider about this issue and guess what my macbook pro has the # mentioned in their article..
I had to install latest OS by booting from a firewire drive....
lets hope apple replace them now for free even if computers are out of warrantee period

I had the same issue last night with Toast. I went through 9 cd-r's before it accepted one. Later I tried to burn a dvd-r and it told me that it could not calibrate the power level properly or something like that. My drive is used often to read and burn discs, although this is the first time I have tried to burn a disc since Snow Leopard came out. I know it worked before Snow Leopard, but now it seems to have all sorts of errors. It seems like a OS issue to me.

+1 for this problem. My DVD drive is HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N, and is actually the second DVD drive that has been installed on this computer (the first one wouldn't burn dual layer DVDs).

I put a DVD in, it hums for a second or several, then spits it out; sometimes it spits it out immediately. Occasionally I can get it to finally read the DVD by re-inserting it anywhere from 5-20 times.

I can also confirm that this issue was present BEFORE I installed Snow Leopard, although it wasn't as bad (could usually get it to read the DVD after a couple tries). While installing Snow Leopard, the SL disc read fine on first try, then in the middle of installation, when the computer restarted, it rejected the DVD. Putting it back in several times worked, and installation resumed.

At this point, I cannot use DVDs, no matter how many times I try putting them in the drive. They get rejected EVERY time. I'm on a long waiting list at my local apple-authorized repair center to get this fixed. (Guess they have a lot of them to replace.)

The drive is 3 years old. But never had one problem with it. At all.

One day, I put a DVD in it and it just would not load anything to the disk. It took me an hour to get the disc out, and just has not worked since. Hopefully, each incident will be taken seriously. I am looking forward to this investigation. I want Snow Leopard.

I've tried 10.6, drive went dead in my 2008 MacPro and in my 2008 MacBookPro... ccc
I don't know is it related, but I'm not able to read any CD or DVD !

I also have the same problem.

Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook2,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB21.00A5.B07
SMC Version (system): 1.13f3
Serial Number (system): W871297ZWGL

HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080MA

since updating to snow leopard, half the disks i order from netflix no longer read in the imac, yet they work fine in the macbook core duo also running 10.6.1

whats up with that?

Hi,

I've the same problem. MBP 2.2, Intel C2D, late 2006, 160 GB.

MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857D:

Firmware-Version: KCVB
Verbindungstyp: ATAPI
Brennen möglich: Ja (Laufwerk von Apple geliefert)
Cache: 2048 KB
DVD lesen: Ja
Beschreibbare CD: -R, -RW
Beschreibbare DVD: -R, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Schreibstrategien: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Medien: Um die verfügbaren Brenngeschwindigkeiten anzuzeigen, legen Sie ein Medium ein und wählen dann „Darstellung“ > „Aktualisieren“.
Hardware-Übersicht:

Modellname: MacBook Pro
Modell-Identifizierung: MacBookPro2,2
Prozessortyp: Intel Core 2 Duo
Prozessorgeschwindigkeit: 2,16 GHz
Anzahl der Prozessoren: 1
Gesamtzahl der Kerne: 2
L2-Cache: 4 MB
Speicher: 4 GB
Busgeschwindigkeit: 667 MHz
Boot-ROM-Version: MBP22.00A5.B07
SMC-Version (System): 1.12f5
Hardware-UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0017F2C42C3E

I Have a Mid-2007 MacBook Pro with the 857E DVD drive, and i have trouble two times, with it, covered by the warranty. the problem is the same of the thread title e and, out-of-warranty, my superdrive don't record any DVD+R, DVD-DL or DVD+DL discs that i try to record...

System Profiler Info
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857E:

Firmware Revision: ZA0E
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO

in My 2008 iMac, I'm unable to read any CD's, just DVDs (movie, data).

MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-875:

Firmware Revision: DB09
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh

These are the drive models mentioned in this thread up until this post:

HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N (By far the most often mentioned)
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080MA
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS21N

MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-845C
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-846
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-85J
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857D
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857E
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-867
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-868
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-875

MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8221
OPTIARC DVD RW AD-7170A
Pioneer DVD-RV DVR-K06A

I have a 2008 pro tower with 2 superdrives and OSX 10.6
Neither drive will recognise blank disks - cd or dvd - I have to use toast to burn disks