On Jul 26, 2004, at 5:40 PM, Howat, Chip wrote:
Fellow listers, ran into an issue and would love your help/advice. First my
machine specs: 1.25GHz G4 running OS 10.2.8 with 1.5gb of RAM....
Last week I was happily burning cds and dvds through the finders built in
disk burn utility... I went to burn a disk yesterday, and it gave me an
error message - "You have inserted a disk containing no volumes that Mac OSX
can read. To continue......click ignore"
Here is what I have tried in my troubleshoot so far: 1. different disks and
brands of disks all with the same results 2. repaired permissions multiple
times. every time I do so, it finds more to fix. 3. Many reboots.
What am I missing? anyone seen anything like this before? Would it help to
reload the drivers? Is it possible to just load disk burn?
Behold the power of multiuser systems....
Under OSX *everyone* should have a second user set up purely for testing (and emergency!) purposes. Mine is called Crash Test Dummy; the sole purpose of this user is to give me a clean set of preferences to test things against.
If something like this happened to me, I'd log out, then log back in as CTD, and try to burn a disk.
If it works, you know its your preferences or a conflict with something you were running at the time, most likely your prefs.
If it doesn't work, you know it's either the hardware or the driver, and can proceed appropriately. (if it suddenly stops, and no software upgrades have been done, it's most likely the hardware...)
If your regular login user cannot log in for some reason (It's possible to get login prefs messed up that way) you can log in as the second user (make them an admin, since you may need to administer the system as that user) and hopefully fix things.
Again, if the test user can't log in, that narrows the problem considerably. (though it will require considerable Unix-fu, since you're most likely going to have to boot in single-user mode, mount disks and go spelunking for some corrupted plists.)
Never, ever, use this test user for anything but emergency purposes.
To be brief, though, most likely it's your prefs, look in your prefs folder for (IIRC, it's different under 10.3 than 10.2) com.apple.DiskBurner.plist (something like that.)
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