10-15-2010, 07:06 AM

Hi, I have a PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-107D on my Powermac G5 which has Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger operating system. After I have burnt data files to a -R or +R DVD the drive will not read the DVD when I put it back in. Can anyone help?
Regards

10-15-2010, 05:45 PM

G'day and welcome to the forums.

First up are you using quality media such as Verbatim and not some cheap stuff? If so, Tty a laser cleaning disc and if that fails toss a X22 speed Pioneer DL superdrive in. They are inexpensive and easy to install

http://www.maclife.com/article/howto...e_power_mac_g5

10-16-2010, 12:25 AM

Have you checked the burned disks at another computer? It seems odd to me that the 107 will burn disks, but not read them. Usually, if a drive has a faulty lens, then trying to burn a disk will reveal it well in advance of a reading fault.

I had a Pioneer 105R in an external optical drive. It simply couldn't handle modern optical media, but I was made aware of that when trying to burn, I never got as far as a reading failure. I replaced the drive with a 112D.

Which leads me to suggest that you might like to consider an external optical drive as an alternative to your present internal drive.