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Apple Computing Products:
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G5 Optical Drive Wierdness
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<blockquote data-quote="Marvin42" data-source="post: 1005087" data-attributes="member: 143405"><p>Thanks, the drive is a Pioneer 117, it gives the same results as the Optiarc that came with the computer and the Samsung SH-S222 that they sent as a replacement. </p><p></p><p>What puzzles me most is the characters that appear in the middle of file names when I load a DVD: the restore disk appears on the desktop as 'Boot C聡mp' and the Canon printer driver disk is labelled CANON_聉J. </p><p></p><p>聡 is Satoshi or Satoru, a Japanese boy's name meaning fast learner.</p><p></p><p>聉 is Han or Mandarin Chinese, pronounced wa or wai, and appears to mean foolish or crazy.</p><p></p><p>BTW, I tried zapping the PRAM to no avail, I also reset the PMU. I also found that inserting a purchased pre-recorded DVD causes DVD Player to open, but the 'play' option is shaded and no files are found on the disk, which plays fine elsewhere. Booting from the Firewire drive which has a copy of the 10.5.8 which I use on my other machine still gives the same behavior (although rather slowly). As we say in this part of the world (snowy Nofolk, UK) 'thaas a rum'un, bor'. Is there the remotest possibility of a bug or virus in the firmware? I have 5.2.4f1 and Apple say I don't need an update.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marvin42, post: 1005087, member: 143405"] Thanks, the drive is a Pioneer 117, it gives the same results as the Optiarc that came with the computer and the Samsung SH-S222 that they sent as a replacement. What puzzles me most is the characters that appear in the middle of file names when I load a DVD: the restore disk appears on the desktop as 'Boot C聡mp' and the Canon printer driver disk is labelled CANON_聉J. 聡 is Satoshi or Satoru, a Japanese boy's name meaning fast learner. 聉 is Han or Mandarin Chinese, pronounced wa or wai, and appears to mean foolish or crazy. BTW, I tried zapping the PRAM to no avail, I also reset the PMU. I also found that inserting a purchased pre-recorded DVD causes DVD Player to open, but the 'play' option is shaded and no files are found on the disk, which plays fine elsewhere. Booting from the Firewire drive which has a copy of the 10.5.8 which I use on my other machine still gives the same behavior (although rather slowly). As we say in this part of the world (snowy Nofolk, UK) 'thaas a rum'un, bor'. Is there the remotest possibility of a bug or virus in the firmware? I have 5.2.4f1 and Apple say I don't need an update. [/QUOTE]
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