Not sure what happened, but suddenly my Mini won't feed any disks.
I have tried to reset PRAM, and cold booting (removing/inserting power cables). Still won't accept any disks.
Any suggestions as to what I can do to fix this? I am running Lion 10.7.4
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GA32N:
Firmware Revision: KC12
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Hello everybody
Please excuse my poor english language, I'm french and I don't use to write in english.
I have the quite same problem than "Rayray519": I have got a Mac Mini, year 2010.
the superdrive is able to read some disks, but isn't able to burn some "-r" or "-rw" dvd or cd when I want to creat some disks.
Now I am unning under Lion, but when Snow Leopard was on, the problem already existed. The burning job always begin, but after a few seconds, it stop with an error.
My firmware revision is KC08
Thanks a lot for responding at my questions: how can I do for upgrading the firmware (is it interesting to do it)? or do you thing about an hard problem on superdrive?
Regards,
In my case, the disk briefy makes a sound while trying to insert, then ejects - regardless of the disk type.
Most likely suspect is the Optical Drive has gone bad, but to "mostly" eliminate a software problem, boot you Mini in to Target mode...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
If it still cannot be inserted, likely the drive is bad.
I have two (2) mid 2010 Mac Minis that have the same problem.
Noticed it on both of them at the same time (when one machine displayed the behavior I check the other).
Either a software problem or a hardware problem that is very coincidental.
This seems to be a frequent issue per posts here and elsewhere. I took my Mini apart per iFixIt instructions and found that of the three arms inside the drive that are supposed to respond to the disc being inserted, one appears to be seized. Now, I have no manual to rely on for whether the arm should be moving freely or not, so this is just a hunch. Still, a lot of people seem to be having problems with these drives...
SuperDrive GA32N won't draw disks
