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G4 "Losing" Superdrive?
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Hi all.
A few weeks ago, I installed a Pioneer A05 in my G4/533. It works great, for the most part, but occasionally the machine will "lose" the drive and fail to detect it. Toast won't see it, and disc burner won't see it. If I reboot, it comes back.
Any ideas about what's going on here?
Thanks in advance!
Cheers
Scott
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I'd doublecheck the connections. Sounds like a loose/frayed wire...
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check that your connections are tight, I had that problem, the wire was barely on, hopefully thats all it is
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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I should qualify this a bit. Here's how the machine will lose the drive:
If I throw a DVD-RW into the drive and mount it on the desktop, everything is fine.
If, while the RW is mounted on the desktop, another app makes a call to the DVD drive (for instance, if Eye TV launches Toast after I export a VCD), Toast will report that there is no drive. It won't come back until I reboot.
Sorry I wasn't more specific earlier.
Cheers
Scott
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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My Pioneer-A05 used to do very similar thing. Also, sometimes toast would see the volume size, but it would say "<no volume>" for the title. Try unchecking "Put drives to sleep when possible" in energy saver prefs.
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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My wife's Sawtooth would lose its CD-RW drive occasionally. A CUDA reset would bring it back.
I wonder if this is a symptom of a failing PRAM battery? (Although hers was relatively new).
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally posted by Eriamjh:
My wife's Sawtooth would lose its CD-RW drive occasionally. A CUDA reset would bring it back.
I wonder if this is a symptom of a failing PRAM battery? (Although hers was relatively new).
I doubt it. This seems related to the OS flaking out somehow. As I said, the drive functions BEAUTIFULLY unless I have a disc mounted (and it can be any kind of disc) and another program makes a call to the drive. Another for instance: If I have Diablo II running, and the disc in the drive, and toast launches to burn a CD, instead of telling me that the drive is busy, it'll tell me that there's no drive at all. And I have to reboot to get it back.
Other than this, I have no complaints about the superdrive.
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