At 10:33 AM -0400 6/14/2009, [email protected] wrote: >Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-103 >G4 Quicksilver 867 >read up and make proper use of CDs >Tiger boot/install DVD in it, after some minutes of "thinking about >it," the drive simply >opened up and spit it out.
WIll it read any DVDs at all? What did the system log say? Optical drives usually yammer a lot when there are errors. Try cleaning the DVD. Try cleaning the DVD drive. >Question: if it takes me awhile to replace the optical drive so I can >use my Tiger DVD again, and I suspect it might, will booting from my >Panther CD allow me to use Disk Utility to format/partition an external >and two internal HDs if I have to? Use Disk Utility on your booted system (it's in /Applications/Utilities) to deal with external drives. The only time you need to boot from the DVD is to repair your normal boot volume's file system (Repair Disk). You could also boot on a cloned backup... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
