[rich82fox]

hi

I recently acquired a CD-ROM drive from a bondi blue imac

I have tried installing in both a tangerine 333mhz tray loader and a 233mhz bondi blue tray loader - both machines do the same thing:

when I insert a cd it gives an error message saying that the disk cannot be read and if I would like to inizitialize it

does this mean the cd-drive is faulty?

rich

[SpaceRockness]

Could be the drive is failing.
Have you tried cleaning the CD/CDR/CDRW or run an off the shelf lens cleaner in the drive? If not give it a try. Now if you've already done that, chances are either the drive(s) are worn out or you're using a CDR/CDRW with a dye that doesn't read well on old iMacs/PowerBooks drives. From my experience blue/green dye is readable on tray loaders, the clear dye CDRs produced by CMC Magnetics(resold as discount TDK, Sony, etc) often have read issues.

On my iMac it got to a point where it couldn't read any CDR which wasn't a blue dye and some regular pressed CDs(music/software) had problems being read.

I hope that helps, most likely you'll want to invest in an external CDR/CDRW drive to read discs or start doing network drive mounting

edit: typo

[SLiMeX]

I dont mind network drive mounting.

[tooki]

That error message is more indicative of an OS problem.

tooki

[finboy]

Originally Posted by tooki

That error message is more indicative of an OS problem.

tooki

You may need to set the jumpers on the CD drive differently. May have something to do with the cable order or jumpers.

[tooki]

Definitely not. Jumper problems manifest themselves as a drive not showing up at all.

tooki