Q: Mavericks broke my super drive - Intel 2008
Before anyone posts that the Superdrive is broken, let me assure that it is not.
It boots perfectly fine with the Snow Leoprd disk inserted at startup. The drive is detected and loads the OS with no issues.
So my first post appears to be locked due to correcting someone who responded with a stock cut and paste "your superdrive broke because it is old, at exactly the time you installed Mavericks".
I have a 2008 iMac. the SuperDrive worked perfectly fine until I installed Mavericks. Now it spits the disks out without even a look. Push it in and it literally shoves the disk out onto the desktop. CLUNK!
I'm simply looking for a solution to the problem.
It is verified as a software/upgrade related issue (by me on my machine)
I've tried resetting NVRAM/PRAM and removing power and holding keys, etc...
The drive is not broken. It works at startup with the Leopard disk in the drive. This is reproducible.
The machine also sees the drive (in Mavericks even)
ATA Bus:
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K06A:
Model: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K06A
Revision: Q624
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal
Low Power Polling: Yes
Power Off: No
When I click "disk Burning" in the hardware list i get this info:
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K06A:
Firmware Revision: Q624
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2000 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose File > Refresh Information
Has anyone had any luck with an fix for this. Multiple discussions found with no solutions.
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), 2008 Intel
Posted on Feb 1, 2014 12:25 PM
