My whole computer and Mac OS are "way out of date", but have both worked perfectly up to around two months ago.
Nothing that I am aware of has changed, except the odd iTunes / Safari update. On 18 August 2010 08:47, Paul Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > Your copy of Toast is way out of date – they are up to version 10 at > present, perhaps that is your problem. > > Paul Owen > > > ------------------------------ > *From: *Andrew Tett <[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *<[email protected]> > *Date: *Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:34:07 +0100 > *To: *<[email protected]> > *Subject: *[sussex_mug] Firewire Drive Behaving Badly > > > Hello there... > > When the internal drive in my G4 PowerBook started to scratch discs right > at the end of the computer's three year Apple Care policy in 2009, I had the > drive replaced. The replacement works, but I have had a couple of scratched > discs nevertheless. However, in order to make absolutely sure that I could > use discs without damage and to keep the G4's internal drive working as long > as possible I popped into Cancom and bought a LaCie Firewire DVD Writer. > > This worked faultlessly for over a year. However, a few weeks ago it > appears to have started to misbehave. Being aware of the fact that it has a > two year warranty I have been in contact with LaCie's customer support and > this long process continues. > > The fault is difficult to pin down but it seems to come down to Audio CDs. > Firstly, it became "picky" while importing audio CDs to iTunes to put on my > iPod. It would occasionally decided it was not going to do it at all. When > I transferred the CD to the G4's internal drive - no problem. Up to then it > had coped with everything that I had "thrown" at it. > > Then, when I tried to write a couple of audio CDs (that's about all I do in > terms of CD / DVD writing, basically for distributing audio) it would fail > to write them (using Toast - see later), and I had to disconnect the drive > and turn off the power in order to get the untouched (i.e. unwritten) CD out > of the drive. Once again, the G4's internal drive managed the task no > problem. > > It continues to read and write all the Data discs that I have used, it's > just audio CDs. Oh, and I can not burn CDs from a Burn Folder in the > Finder, although I have never tried this before so do not know if I could > before. > > I would have imagined that it could be an updated iTunes, which is > regularly updated, but I tend to use Toast 6.11 for burning myself, and that > has not changed. As I said, I was ready to blame the LaCie, but yesterday > the Customer Support person suggested burning an Audio CD from iTunes (which > I have never done on this machine) - and it did - perfectly! > > Any ideas? > > Andrew > (Shoreham) > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <smug%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
