TTen years later original SuperDrive is dead. Trays but won't mount or read any disk. I purchased LG burner from Mac sales. Installed it. Powered it on. Mounts disks, but I can't get it to book from it to install SL or Windows 7.
Any help is appreciated. Just spent 4 hours installing it and cleaning all the **** dust inside the case. It's currently stuck trying to read or boot SL for about 20 minutes.
When you insert a SL install DVD and boot with the Option Key depressed does the SL disk show as bootable?
Maybe you have a defective drive
It only mounta on the desktop. When I reboot regardless of holding down the key I get black screen as if Windows is about to install. i use start up n system preferences to force it into the SL DVD and the drive spins and I hear the familiar zip noise of a busy drive reading the disk and that's it. For half an hour doing nothing I shut it down and went to sleep. Prior to that I had both the original hard edge stop hooked up to the Mac. Last time on final attempt I removed completely. Hoping it will force it to boot from the new drive.
IM stuck there until I go home after work. It boots into lion as normal but I can't install SL on a bare drive or Windows 7 on another SSD (solid state disk ) like I had before. I screwed with the SSD (solid state disk ) and lost Windows 10. Which is why I'm at this stage with my aging Mac Pro.
Btw I no longer hear the boot up chime since installing the OWC LG DVD writer.
Maybe a bad optical drive.
Can you boot from the SL disk on another Mac?
Maybe a bad optical drive.
I suspect the same.
A similar thing happened to me about a year ago. By the way, make sure any optical drive that you purchase can burn M-DISC. Most LG units can.
OWC prices include generous support. Call them and ask them what's up.
Most Mac Pros will be wired for cable-select, in which the cable position (primary or secondary) attempts to force the drive address. If there are jumpers on the drive as well, it may not register as the correct address.
TThank you for your response.
I wish I had another Mac in the house to test. Saving pennies for a new Mac. Somewhere as it boots I can hear the writer buzzing but seems to hang for a long time.
HHow do I check that. This is recommended to work with Mac Pro 1.1. I don't have media to burn but I need the drive to install SL or Windows 7. These Mac Pros don't do usb boot ups. I'll scrounge around for disks to burn and see if it is working.
Thank you for your response.
I remember jumpers for IDE drives but I installed a SATA. I removed the broken super drive so it only sees the new LG drive now. The keyboard eject button works. Media mounts on the desktop just fine.
I will give them a call if I hit a dead end. I despise phone support. Primarily I'm awkward on the phone. Like someone learning to use a walkie talkie for the first time. Lol
Thank you for your response.
Ok this is what be done so far.
I rest PRAM. I hear the chime again. I plugged in an external USB DVD and inserted SL disk. Went into System Preference and Startup. Highlighted the install disk.
Booted again and got the SL installation going. I've tried using this burner before but like the other it wouldn't mount despite doing what I just did.
Its a roll of the dice sometimes.
Mac Pro 1,1 is not wired in those bays for SATA. It is wired for IDE/ATA drives. Did you install a drive with an extra little adapter-board?
I despise phone support.
then email them. You are good at describing your problems here.
It appears that the OP purchases one of these
It uses one of the two spare SATA ports Apple provided on the logic board n the 2006-2008 Pros
Correct. OWC provides a cable that I snaked through the drive bays to the logic board and additional adapter. I am currently loading Photoshop Elements 6 through the installed LG burner on the SL drive. Not issues.
Somehow I can no longer boot anything from any drive. Keep in mind I have installed Windows Vista 4 times on four different hard drives. Two ran out of room and two were older and finally failed until I moved to SSD. From there I was able to load Windows 7 Professional 32 bit. In the same day I installed it I was offered Windows 10. I was shocked it upgraded with no issues other than locking up during YouTube playback.
Keep in mind that going from Vista to 7 required several attempts to load through DVD. The last time my original superdrive worked. I figured as much too.
Now nothing will read it except the external LG burner and that was with the SL DVD.
Thank you. I will by tonight.
Mac Pro 1.1 Lion and new DVD burner old SuperDrive dead
