On Mar 17, 2004, at 7:03 PM, TJ Ciaffone wrote:
Sorry, if I was not clear. I used a CD-ROM drive cleaner, with no noticeable
success. Wish it were not so, though.
OK, then that eliminates a simple possibility. Now it gets uglier. The hardware possibilities are the drive itself (they do die) We had to replace the CD in our Summer 2000 iMac. Cables, logic board, etc.. Since you say it does boot from the HD, and you've done all the repair permissions, zapped the PRAM, etc. then a hardware problem may be the culprit?
If you are running OS X you might boot into the single user mode and run fsck just to see what it reports?
Jack Russell
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