On Dec 22, 2008, at 12:06 AM, Paul wrote:
What's much more painful is dealing with a similar but worse version
of this problem on my Pismo. It's fussy about brands, and probably
about DVD-R vs. DVD+R, and probably just plain fussy about homemade
DVD's as opposed to DVD's whose data was
On Dec 20, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Paul wrote:
The Matsushita SR-8585F is labeled Apple and came with some G4's and
possibly other Macs. I've tried a few rewritable DVD's without luck
reading them, even though they're known to be good, since other DVD
readers on other machines can read them.
The Matsushita SR-8585F is labeled Apple and came with some G4's and
possibly other Macs. I've tried a few rewritable DVD's without luck
reading them, even though they're known to be good, since other DVD
readers on other machines can read them.
Is there a firmware upgrade that will allow the
On Dec 21, 2008, at 12:14 AM, Paul wrote:
Is there a firmware upgrade that will allow the drive to read more
discs, or at least some documentation that explains what it will and
won't read?
I don't know, the older DVD units had trouble with some types of
discs, and I think your model may
Get a new optical drive. The old ones suck anyways. I have two powermac g4's
both with stock apple DVD drives. Both of these drives will read DVDs, just
not cd's very well.-Jonas
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
On Dec 21, 2008, at 12:14 AM, Paul wrote:
