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PowerMac G5 - dvd drive invisible in finder and cant/wont eject
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<blockquote data-quote="supernova777" data-source="post: 1542250" data-attributes="member: 188611"><p>hello + good day all!</p><p>im on an old PowerMac7,2, 4gb ram, running 10.4.11</p><p>computer works great for what im using it for which is some light recording.. some vsts in cubase.. etc</p><p>my problem is the same as the original posters.. The dvd drive always dissappears from the finder.. when i reboot it seems to work for about 5-10-15 min .. but then if i want to eject the disc i have to reboot again. please.. i dont want to spend any money on this old rusy bucket of bolts.. but if someone could tell me how to fix this nuisance of a problem.. what the **** is going on here?? is it the actual dvddrive failing? the cable? because.. if you ask me, I believe it to be some type of software error. ive only seen this happen on tiger with the powermac g5 + imac g5... ive never seen it happen on panther, In fact i think on the same machine if i boot into panther.. the cd works 100% fine and never locks up like this... I cant even run toast which is the major problem, because i use it to mount disc images.. I could get by without using the dvd if i could at least run toast.. but trying to run toast locks up.. trying to do anything related to the cd.. will freeze.. if i open terminal and do drutil eject. it just hangs.. does nothing.. there is obviously some peice of software doing this. perhaps it is toast itself that caused it in the first place? that almost makes sense.. the version of toast i have installed is version 8. perhaps ill roll back to 7,6,5 maybe even 4 and see how i make out..</p><p>will report back my findings!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="supernova777, post: 1542250, member: 188611"] hello + good day all! im on an old PowerMac7,2, 4gb ram, running 10.4.11 computer works great for what im using it for which is some light recording.. some vsts in cubase.. etc my problem is the same as the original posters.. The dvd drive always dissappears from the finder.. when i reboot it seems to work for about 5-10-15 min .. but then if i want to eject the disc i have to reboot again. please.. i dont want to spend any money on this old rusy bucket of bolts.. but if someone could tell me how to fix this nuisance of a problem.. what the **** is going on here?? is it the actual dvddrive failing? the cable? because.. if you ask me, I believe it to be some type of software error. ive only seen this happen on tiger with the powermac g5 + imac g5... ive never seen it happen on panther, In fact i think on the same machine if i boot into panther.. the cd works 100% fine and never locks up like this... I cant even run toast which is the major problem, because i use it to mount disc images.. I could get by without using the dvd if i could at least run toast.. but trying to run toast locks up.. trying to do anything related to the cd.. will freeze.. if i open terminal and do drutil eject. it just hangs.. does nothing.. there is obviously some peice of software doing this. perhaps it is toast itself that caused it in the first place? that almost makes sense.. the version of toast i have installed is version 8. perhaps ill roll back to 7,6,5 maybe even 4 and see how i make out.. will report back my findings! [/QUOTE]
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