It sounds like a drive problem. On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:47 PM, PeterH <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jan 18, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> The eject button does not work ? > > The drives which were made by Pioneer under an OEM contract for Apple > do not have all the features of the retail Pioneer drive. > > Some of the features which are, or may be missing, include: > > 1) support for DVD-RAM (but such media may be supported as read-only), > > 2) front bezel and eject button, > > 3) tray front, > > 4) activity light, and > > 5) support for a wider variety of recordable media (may be > artificially limited to a lower recording speed and/or some common > media vendors may be ignored). > > Many of the Pioneer drives have so-called hacked firmware, which can > restore many of the functional restrictions imposed on these OEM drives. > > For example, if the Pioneer firmware is 1.37, look on the 'Net for > 8.37 firmware. > > 8.37 firmware was released for the BenQ version of the Pioneer drive, > and this firmware supports many more functions, and full recording > speed over a wider list of media. > > Drives which are labeled Pioneer, but which were made for Sony, > cannot be FLASHed ... these are permanently "locked" to Sony firmware. > > You cannot tell a Sony OEM drive from a Pioneer OEM drive, or, > indeed, from a Pioneer retail drive, without accessing the firmware > using DVRFlash_2.2. > > With specific reference to (2), above, some Pioneer OEM drives have > the eject microswitch physically missing. Such drives may only be > ejected logically, using the keyboard action. > > > > > >
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