Interesting info thanks peterh...
Just to close this thread, (although it seemed too have died anyway!)
I was having a problem with the new DVD drive tray fouling the gap in
the MDD case, (I had done all testing with the cage loose and
accessible, and the MDD opened to the elements). As it was
Hi Group:
When I got my dual 1.2GHz MDD a few months ago, I found it had two
optical drives fitted, although only the upper one was functional.
Clicking the 'open drive' icon showed one drive: the button always
opened the top one and sometimes the lower one would open too. As I
had it out of
The MDD should show both optical drives (mine does); the first and
easiest thing I would try is to blow out both drives with a can of
compressed gas. Sometimes a little dust gets in and interferes with
the laser just enough to mess with you.
On Feb 3, 5:48 am, Deiniol ap Deiniol
I did try drive 0 as slave and 1 as master - no change, also both as
cable select - no difference.
Is it perhaps a firmware issue, either with the G4 or the non-Apple
drives perhaps?
Early optical drives installed by Apple preferred Master, even though the
optical cable is indeed of the
