[TFH]

Drive ejects DVD upon clicking "Burn" (from ANY application).
(plays CD, DVD; burns CD no problem)

My Mac:
eMac PPC G4 700Mhz, 1 GB ram, OS X 4.11

My Superdrive:
NEC DVD_RW ND-2500A:

Firmware Revision: 1.06
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Vendor Supported)
Profile Path: /Library/DiscRecording/DeviceProfiles/PatchBurn-_necdvd_rwnd2500a.drprofile
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media:
Media Type: DVD-R
Blank: Yes
Erasable: No
Overwritable: Yes
Appendable: Yes

Anyone know what's up?
Thank You!

[ghporter]

Will it burn other kinds of media? Will it accept DVDs that had previously been burned?

[turtle777]

My bet: your DVD drive is going bad.

This is how my superdrive started as well. No burning of DVDs, just CDs. Then it would stop burning CDs as well. In the end, it wouldn't even read CDs and DVDs.

Mine degraded to complete uselessness over the course of about 9 months.

-t

[ghporter]

There are separate lasers for reading and burning, and separate pairs for DVD and CD-4 lasers in all. Typically the burning lasers go first, since they are the higher power devices. This is what I was leading up to in my earlier post, but I didn't want to be a downer-it could be that it's not a laser problem.