then try Diskwarrior etc, reinstalling. stuff gets dusty or corrupted
even if you don't change anything.
Andrew Tett wrote:
My whole computer and Mac OS are "way out of date", but have both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]
<mailto:[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Your copy of Toast is way out of date � they are up to version 10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
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*From: *Andrew Tett <[email protected] <http://[email protected]>>
*Reply-To: *<[email protected] <http://[email protected]>>
*Date: *Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:34:07 +0100
*To: *<[email protected] <http://[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)
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