Prior to this, the drive could burn CDs and recognize music and burned CDs.
PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
Heelo,
Could it be it died just before trying to read the Install Disc?
Have you tried one of those CD/DVD cleaner Discs?
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]
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.
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
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.
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
Ha! Now to go shopping for a new one.
Why after not recognizing installation disc, has the SuperDrive now stopped working?
