[Dougmc]

My brother-in-law stopped by the other day with some CDs that he had created containing some files he wanted me to see.

We have a playful PC-vs-Mac relationship that fuels fun little jabs at one another about our respective machines. This day was no different.

I took one of the PC-produced CDs and slid it into my rev. A 17" PowerBook and immediately got into a conversation with my brother-in-law. After a few minutes, it dawned on me that the CD never loaded. I didn't want to bring this little faux pas to his attention, so I nonchalantly ejected the disc and re-inserted it into the drive again casually paying closer attention to what was, or more accurately wasn't, happening.

Jumping to the end of this story�the CD wouldn't load into my PowerBook with a not so super SuperDrive.

However, when we retired to my office upstairs to see how my older iMac (Sage) with a ComboDrive would handle the disc we discovered that it had no problem at all mounting the media immediately. Then to test matters even further, we threw the PC-created disc into an even older G3 beige machine I'm using as a server and low-and-behold it too had no issues mounting the disc.

Simple question: Why does this PC-created disc act like kryptonite to my SuperDrive?

[urrl78]

Good question. Wonder if it works in a display model at an Apple store. If so there may be something wrong with your 17". Is the CD perfectly clean or is it scratched?

[maxx9photo]

Me too had a same problem when I inserted a PC formatted CD, it's freeze in my drive won't get out. I almost frustrated by it but force it with A+del/ eject/f12 button, after several tries it came out. Pheeeww I almost blew the SD, thanks God it's still under warranty otherwise...

[iPoder]

Maybe it is a multi-session CD, or the disc is not closed after burning. My SuperDrive on PB has problem of recognizing them.