lion upgrade and superdrive

Compressed air didn't work for me. Also bought a CD/DVD cleaner, I tried to run it multiple times. Also the compressed air, I amost sprayed half a can into the drive with no result. Imho it is evidently a Software issue. My drive is able to read OEM DVD of OSX, and reads also some movie disks. It also correctly recognized DVD+R and DVD-R. Just refuses to burn disks.

See also:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3199297?start=0&tstart=0

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3199297?start=0&tstart=0

Apple... are you there? Can't even make your own hardware work with your OS? What the heck!

Safe boot didn't work.

1:30:08 luigi@hal9000:~$ tail ~/Library/Logs/DiscRecording.log

Disk Utility: Requested burn speed was 47x, actual burn speed is 8x.

Disk Utility: Burn failed, Tue Oct 4 16:47:13 2011

Disk Utility: Burn sense: 3/73/03 Medium Error, Power calibration area error

Disk Utility: Burn error: 0x8002006D The disc can't be burned; it might be incompatible with this disc drive. Please try a different brand of disc, or try burning at a slower speed.

Disk Utility: Burn started, Sat Oct 8 11:26:27 2011

Disk Utility: Burning to DVD+R (MBIPG101 R05) media with DAO strategy in MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-868 KB19 via ATAPI.

Disk Utility: Requested burn speed was 47x, actual burn speed is 8x.

Disk Utility: Burn failed, Sat Oct 8 11:26:45 2011

Disk Utility: Burn sense: 3/73/03 Medium Error, Power calibration area error

Disk Utility: Burn error: 0x8002006D The disc can't be burned; it might be incompatible with this disc drive. Please try a different brand of disc, or try burning at a slower speed.

To fix this problem,

1. Open Terminal.

2. Copy and paste this code:

3. Reboot computer. (If hangs reboot again)

4. Fixed! Enjoy!

Its an easy fix that Apple should include in their next update 😀

Wow, great tip/post! 🙂

Any idea why tjat file is there?

The file seems to be not allowing the CD/DVD to be read. I do not know the exact reason why, maybe someone can find out! Also this only happens on Mac OS X Lion. SuperDrives used to work fine on Snow Leopard. This solution might not work, although it worked for me.

Hmmm, mds is spotlight, I have that file in Lion & it reads DVDs fine,,, I do have Spotlight disabled though. 🙂

Doesn't fix my problem

http://en.newinstance.it/2011/08/25/superdrive-not-working-anymore/

Hmmm, might try this from an earlier OSX problem...

Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.

Then move these files to the Desktop...

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist

Reboot & test.

PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.

I get "no such file or directory " -- any idea where to look for ?

Thanks Mike

Compressed air seemed to work for many...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1527801?threadID=1527801&tstart=813

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1754011?start=0&tstart=0

http://techdrops.tumblr.com/post/12942201003/if-your-superdrive-is-not-working-a nymore-after

This solves the problem, guaranteed!

Has anyone reported this to apple? I did and they said they have never heard of this problem

When i enter this in terminal:

sudo rm /private/var/db/mds/system/mds.install.lock

It gives me this:

rm: /private/var/db/mds/system/mds.install.lock: No such file or directory

any suggestions?

Thank You so much MWAH!

This worked for me 😀

To fix this problem,

1. Open Terminal.

2. Copy and paste this code:

3. Reboot computer. (If hangs reboot again)

4. Fixed! Enjoy!

Thanks McCado this worked!

After replacing the superdrive and the genius bar telling me the only fix was to downgrade to Snow Leopard your fix worked!

1. Open System Preferences > CDs and DVDs
2. Change all the options and revert them back.
3. Now your drive should work fine.