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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1838788" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>What brand was the CD Drive? I ask because if it was Apple branded, they should have tested it. A third party drive is up to the builder to make it compatible and/or notify Apple if it is not. When you said it "didn't work" what did that mean, exactly? Just curious, not that I have any "fix" for it. CD Drives are pretty old technology and therefore pretty well established, so I am surprised that it didn't work for you.Sorry, but that makes no sense to me at all. One does not "format" a CD drive at all. A blank CD is initialized when it is written to and normally you cannot "format" a CD after it has been written to. So that sentence just doesn't sound right at all. Maybe you can clear that up?</p><p></p><p>Sorry about the problems you had with the upgrade to Catalina. My experience was entirely different as the upgrade went pretty much flawlessly. And I suspect most of the upgrades did as well or there would be a huge uproar. Your issues may well have been associated with your particular iMac and how it is set up, including any third party software you may have installed on it. No software of anything but trivial complexity is "fully tested." And no release of any software was ever bug-free (and won't be). Bugs are a fact of life. About the only way to avoid them is to wait until the software is 2-3 releases in it's life when most of the bugs are sorted out. Not all, just most.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1838788, member: 396914"] What brand was the CD Drive? I ask because if it was Apple branded, they should have tested it. A third party drive is up to the builder to make it compatible and/or notify Apple if it is not. When you said it "didn't work" what did that mean, exactly? Just curious, not that I have any "fix" for it. CD Drives are pretty old technology and therefore pretty well established, so I am surprised that it didn't work for you.Sorry, but that makes no sense to me at all. One does not "format" a CD drive at all. A blank CD is initialized when it is written to and normally you cannot "format" a CD after it has been written to. So that sentence just doesn't sound right at all. Maybe you can clear that up? Sorry about the problems you had with the upgrade to Catalina. My experience was entirely different as the upgrade went pretty much flawlessly. And I suspect most of the upgrades did as well or there would be a huge uproar. Your issues may well have been associated with your particular iMac and how it is set up, including any third party software you may have installed on it. No software of anything but trivial complexity is "fully tested." And no release of any software was ever bug-free (and won't be). Bugs are a fact of life. About the only way to avoid them is to wait until the software is 2-3 releases in it's life when most of the bugs are sorted out. Not all, just most. [/QUOTE]
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