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Standby & DVD player conflict

Hello !

3 years after the acquisition of my Leopard MBP, currently running with Mac OS 10.5.8, it still gives me a lot of trouble, even if already in its warranty period the service Apple changed its motherboard and also the AirPort Card.

Since the original DVD burner no longer works , I just mounted today a "Toshiba-Samsung TS-L632", and enlarged a little bit the DVD aperture in the front panel case of the MBP.

After a P-RAM memory reset, the new DVD player works well. 🙂

But after only one standby, for example by clicking on "Sleep" utility, the new DVD player does not work any more, and lauching for instance the "Disk Utility" induces the traditional endless rainbow disk ... 😟

After a classic reboot, following the above-mentioned probs, the reader is no longer supported, but one can repeat the standby operations ...

To use again the DVD facilities, I need to reset again the P-RAM and/or the Mac SMC ... !!

In summary there is a conflict between standby operation and the DVD-player suppport ...

So, any advice would be welcome ... cause I am cracking up with this computer !! 😢

Thank you in advance, Best regards.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Dec 30, 2012 9:26 AM

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BDAqua

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Jan 4, 2013 4:20 PM in response to castanou34

It would appear to be not completely comatible, but have we tried this yet?

Before sleep or standy...

Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this later happens.

Jan 5, 2013 7:39 AM in response to BDAqua

In my experience with hundreds of different Macs coming into our facility each year, using standby is the cause of many problems.

We never use standby or sleep as it disconnects the video cards and drives out of our ststem.

To me if everything is working well from a standard boot, never use standby or sleep, just shut the Macdown properly after working on the machine. In our conference suite, if a Mac sleeps during an interval, the optical drive, Keynote, Quicktime player never work properly untill its re-booted.

BDAqua

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Jan 5, 2013 10:38 AM in response to Gary Scotland

Interesting, thanks, I've not seen Optical dropping, but nowhere near your experiences in numbers! 🙂

castanou34 Author

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Jan 5, 2013 4:31 PM in response to BDAqua

Using Console in Utilities seems to be a very good idea !

--> Indeed, here is the report of Console when the standby or sleep mode is ok (when the optical player is not seen by the MBP) :

05/01/13 14:22:54 kernel System SafeSleep

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel hibernate_page_list_setall start

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel hibernate_page_list_setall time: 132 ms

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel pages 315437, wire 95791, act 81155, inact 11, spec 1, zf 0, throt 11280, could discard act 40525 inact 18786 purgeable 1947 spec 65941

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel hibernate_page_list_setall found pageCount 188238

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel IOHibernatePollerOpen, ml_get_interrupts_enabled 0

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel writing 188009 pages

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel image1Size 236132864

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel all time: 6303 ms, comp time: 1235 ms, deco time: 0 ms,

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel image 410471936, uncompressed 770084864 (188009), compressed 408944096 (53%), sum1 4880c354, sum2 7eaa3031

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel hibernate_write_image done(0)

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel sleep

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel Wake reason = UHC3

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel System Wake

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel vmmon: powerStateDidChange flags=0x82 (state 4)

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel Previous Sleep Cause: 5

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel USB (UHCI):Port 2 on bus 0x5d has remote wakeup from some device

05/01/13 14:28:33 kernel AirPort: Link Down on en1

--> And here is the report, after the 1st standby, in the opposite case :

05/01/13 18:27:56 kernel System SafeSleep

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel hibernate_page_list_setall start

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel hibernate_page_list_setall time: 112 ms

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel pages 225052, wire 91709, act 33445, inact 22, spec 1, zf 0, throt 1899, could discard act 38037 inact 7249 purgeable 932 spec 51758

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel hibernate_page_list_setall found pageCount 127076

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel IOHibernatePollerOpen, ml_get_interrupts_enabled 0

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel writing 126847 pages

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel image1Size 230360576

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel all time: 4474 ms, comp time: 813 ms, deco time: 0 ms,

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel image 289209344, uncompressed 519565312 (126847), compressed 288168496 (55%), sum1 6816f97d, sum2 fa8dceeb

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel hibernate_write_image done(0)

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel sleep

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel Wake reason = UHC3

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel System Wake

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel vmmon: powerStateDidChange flags=0x82 (state 4)

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel Previous Sleep Cause: 5

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel USB (UHCI):Port 2 on bus 0x5d has remote wakeup from some device

05/01/13 18:31:31 kernel AirPort: Link Down on en1

05/01/13 18:31:32 kernel IOATAController device blocking bus.

05/01/13 18:31:33 kernel IOATAController device blocking bus.

... etc

and the last message is displayed constantly !!

Should I deduce that this optical player is not fully compatible ?? while the original one must necessarily be ...

BDAqua

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Jan 5, 2013 8:46 PM in response to castanou34

OK, good work, off hand, that seems like a Hardware problem with the Disk or Disc.

Boot off your *original* Install Disk while holding down the *d key*, (not c key), then run the extended Apple Hardware Test. Some disks require you to use the Option key at bootup to select AHT. Some Discs have it inexplicably on Disc #2. Some models have a separate AHT CD.

castanou34 Author

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Jan 6, 2013 1:30 PM in response to BDAqua

Done this day ! but after the long AHT analysis, approximately 90 minutes, no pb was identified by this test. 😢

I was so surprised by this result that I made many tens of regular boots, and I found - via the Disk Utility tool - that the MBP supports the DVD player in a really random way, so regardless of any standby !!

Thus one might think that the AHT analysis was carried out in a case where the DVD player wasn't take into account ...

And furthermore I didn' need to use the original Install Disk, cause holding down the d key at the Boot without inserting the Leopard was enough to launch the Apple Hardware Test.

--> Is it possible to force the launch of this AH test from the CD, when hoping in my case that I will be lucky enough to be in the good case (with the DVD player being seen ...) ?? via d & c key ??

BDAqua

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Jan 6, 2013 1:40 PM in response to castanou34

I don't think AHT checks the Optical drive, in fact I've seen where the Hard Drive was bad & AHT just skipped the HDD test completely.

Furthermore, If it does check it & finds it not there, it'll likely skip that test... & tell you everything is hunky dory.

castanou34 Author

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Jan 7, 2013 12:08 AM in response to BDAqua

😟

Any other clue to go on ? 🙂

I am very surprised by the random feature I observed, when starting the MBP whith the Regular Boot ...

castanou34 Author

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Jan 7, 2013 2:39 AM in response to castanou34

To summarize, I think you were absolutely right when you said that the current Toshiba-Samsung DVD player is not fully compatible.

But the question remains: is this a hardware problem? that does not explain a priori the random effects observed about supporting or not the DVD player ... or is it a software problem, ie a feature restrained by Apple, that does not allow to use anything other than Apple Certified disk players ... ?? but it's very surprising that we are not able to bypass this restriction ... tell me ...

Thanks !

BDAqua

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Jan 7, 2013 9:51 AM in response to castanou34

Might not be a case of restricting, more likely it would be support for talking to it isn't inclided, but, the random nature seems like some hardware timing issue.

I forget, is this an IDE or SATA Optical?

castanou34 Author

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Jan 7, 2013 12:34 PM in response to BDAqua

Does this mean that the only solution is to try with an "Apple proof" DVD player ?

About your last question, it's maybe SATA, but I am not sure. It is the same as the one of step 11 of the following tutorial :

http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+17-Inch+Models+A1151+A1212+A1229+and+A12 61+Optical+Drive+Replacement/321/2

BDAqua

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Jan 7, 2013 6:49 PM in response to castanou34

Hmmm, maybe this one, are there any jumpers on yours?

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MMB5SD8XDLK/

Standby & DVD player conflict