[roadieshammer]

I've been searching this forum looking for an answer to my problem, and haven't gotten one yet. I'm hoping someone can help me.

I have a G4 (MDD), and I just purchased $300 of cd-roms with stock images for use with my clients' projects. However, none of the discs save for the 1st one will mount. Disk utility recognizes it, and I can get it to mount using terminal services, but it won't mount otherwise. I've logged in as another user and it still won't mount. I've recreated my finder prefs, etc., to no avail.

Other cds and disks, as well as .dmgs mount fine. I've cleaned the cd-rom/dvd as well. Everything else is functioning normally, I just can't get these particular cds to mount and they're brand new. Any advice? The apple store won't let me return them for a refund, and I'm not sure replacing them will solve my problem, either. It seems funny that using the terminal I can get them to mount, but they won't on their own.

Any advice? Thanks in advance for your help!!!

[reader50]

This doesn't address the real problem, but it will work around it. If you have the free HD space, mount the problem disks manually via the Terminal and make a disk image copy of each one. Save all the disk images to a suitably named folder, and doubleclick to mount at any time.

On the plus side, they will mount and access faster than real CDs do.

If the contents don't need to think they are on a CD, then do a normal copy to suitably named folders. Those will access even faster.