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Q: Why after not recognizing installation disc, has the SuperDrive now stopped working?

Prior to this, the drive could burn CDs and recognize music and burned CDs.

PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Dec 29, 2013 2:46 PM

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Q: Why after not recognizing installation disc, has the SuperDrive now stopped working?

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  • by BDAqua,Helpful

    BDAqua BDAqua Dec 29, 2013 3:21 PM in response to jeffersson
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    Dec 29, 2013 3:21 PM in response to jeffersson

    Heelo,

     

    Could it be it died just before trying to read the Install Disc?

     

    Have you tried one of those CD/DVD cleaner Discs?

  • by jeffersson,

    jeffersson jeffersson Dec 29, 2013 4:49 PM in response to BDAqua
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    Dec 29, 2013 4:49 PM in response to BDAqua

    I think you are right. I must have caught it just as it was about to die.

    I ran the Disk Utility on the hard drive and it found that there were no disk permissions present.

    Also, this error message came up "A valid DVD drive could not be found. [-70012]

  • by jeffersson,

    jeffersson jeffersson Dec 29, 2013 4:53 PM in response to BDAqua
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    Dec 29, 2013 4:53 PM in response to BDAqua

    Yes. I was thinking about using a CD/DVD cleaner seeing it mentioned in other posts. But, the drive stopped working before I could use it.

  • by BDAqua,Helpful

    BDAqua BDAqua Dec 29, 2013 6:23 PM in response to jeffersson
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    Dec 29, 2013 6:23 PM in response to jeffersson

    So it looks like it really totally died???

     

    At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac, then click on More Info, then click on Hardware>Disc Burning & report what it says, like ...

     

    Interconnect: ATAPI

    Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)

    Cache: 2048 KB

    Reads DVD: Yes

    CD-Write: -R, -RW

    DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL

    Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes

    Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes

    Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD

  • by jeffersson,

    jeffersson jeffersson Dec 29, 2013 6:57 PM in response to BDAqua
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    Dec 29, 2013 6:57 PM in response to BDAqua

    Yep. It looks like. The Disc Burning report says: No burning device was found. If you are using an external device please make sure that it is connected and powered properly.

  • by BDAqua,

    BDAqua BDAqua Dec 29, 2013 7:25 PM in response to jeffersson
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    Dec 29, 2013 7:25 PM in response to jeffersson

    It's dead Jim Jeff.

     

    At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.

     

    Then click on More Info>Hardware and report this upto *but not including the Serial#*...

     

    Hardware Overview:

     

    Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Quad

    Machine Model: PowerMac11,2

    CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (1.1)

    Number Of CPUs: 4

    CPU Speed: 2.5 GHz

    L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB

    Memory: 10 GB

    Bus Speed: 1.25 GHz

    Boot ROM Version: 5.2.7f1

  • by jeffersson,

    jeffersson jeffersson Dec 29, 2013 8:13 PM in response to BDAqua
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    Dec 29, 2013 8:13 PM in response to BDAqua

    Ha! Now to go shopping for a new one.