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Mac Optical Drive Error
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Apologies for posting another Mac related query, but the answers here are always good and less techie than some Mac sites I’ve browsed through.
Trying to burn discs (both CD and DVD), but the optical drive starts spinning stupidly fast, makes a nasty noise, spits the disc out, and displays the following message:
“Burning the disc failed because communication to the disc drive failed”.
Appears to be reading discs OK though, just doesn’t like burning them.
Anyone have any experience with this?
I’m assuming my optical drive is dead. Right?
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Jason Moore
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Mon Mar 03 11:17:34 UTC 2008
(ed. Mar 12 2008)
Small Town,
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have you tried different makes of discs? I had a batch of dvds that my mac wouldn't write to
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Cheers Brian,
seems to be working fine again now. Same media, both CD and DVD. Must have been some quirk.
I lowered the burn speed though, and burnt files from my internal drive rather than an external.
Would that make a difference?
Still see it as a sign of impending doom, however.
Now, has anyone got any good tips for stopping my cat from sitting on my scanner while I'm out?
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Jason - you've hit all the nails on the head there.
* They're a bit fussy with some brands of disc. Unsurprisingly the Apple discs seem to work best, but others are fine too.
* Burning from an internal disc instead of an external one might be significant too, in the same way that you can't burn to disc over a network.
* And the slower you burn, the less likely it is you'd have a problem - and also I am told it reduces the chances of the disc failing in the future.
Having said all that, I'm over DVDs. I had a 30% failure rate on my last big back up so it's hard drives and online backups for me.
Wade.
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Think I'm working on a 2005 iMac with a MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-846 drive. The drive started giving me loads of crazy noise and odd sounding gear changes after 12months +1 hour. It could take an age to burn a disk but only when it was hyper important. Then would only burn at slow speeds. Complete pain and not easily changed. If i remember reading (on geektastic sites) there was a similar problems reported on this drive from others. So i gots me a new external Freecom one that does Lightscribe as well and I don't cry as much in times of burning.
Wades right though for backing steer clear of DVD for backing up.
(that Lightscribe thing is pretty good at eliminating my childish scrawl from the DVDs I give to clients too.)
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