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Superdrive Difficulties with iTunes 7
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Oct 15, 2006, 05:58 AM
 
Has anyone else found this?

I've been having problems since upgrading to iTunes 7 - I can now no longer burn cds using my superdrive (Matshita UJ-815, firmware upgraded) but dvds seem ok.

It seems that no the drive is unable to calibrate the laser to burn cd media... is it completely screwed and I need a new one, or is it a duff part of itunes?
     
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Oct 15, 2006, 08:48 AM
 
it also seems to be affecting the other programs I use for burning cds - toast and burn...

anyone got a fix, or is it going to be a trip to the repair shop?
     
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Oct 17, 2006, 03:01 PM
 
I'm having the exact problem. I was able to burn a few CDs after the upgrade to 7- maybe 1 in 5 was successful. Now I can't burn anything. Message says 'burn cancelled' and I get the laser not calebrated message also. Have you heard of a solution?

Originally Posted by threestain View Post
Has anyone else found this?

I've been having problems since upgrading to iTunes 7 - I can now no longer burn cds using my superdrive (Matshita UJ-815, firmware upgraded) but dvds seem ok.

It seems that no the drive is unable to calibrate the laser to burn cd media... is it completely screwed and I need a new one, or is it a duff part of itunes?
     
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Oct 17, 2006, 03:35 PM
 
not yet, but there does seem to be a lot of it floating around on the internet...
     
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Oct 17, 2006, 04:14 PM
 
Alas, another fatality of the iTunes 7 release...sigh. If the problem is occuring in other apps as well, the only thing I can think of is that you have not updated the firmware on it yet, but you probably have.

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Oct 18, 2006, 01:01 PM
 
oooh, is there new firmware that helps? I've got a UJ-815 with firmware by XVI at X101...
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 05:39 PM
 
Check the apple website and search for it.

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Oct 19, 2006, 10:39 AM
 
I've had a look and there's nothing for my ancient drive. Besides which that would remove xvi's fantastic work... and put it back to RPC-2 which wouldn't be good...
     
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Oct 20, 2006, 07:06 AM
 
randomly I've just seemed to find a solution...

using toast BEFORE itunes -i.e. not trying to burn a disk in iTunes at all. It seems once it fails in iTunes it completely corrupts the burning framework somehow.
     
   
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