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    Optical Drive issues

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Estelio, Jan 5, 2009.

  1. Estelio

    Estelio Notebook Guru

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    I am still using Tiger, 10.4 on my MBP.

    I have recently been having issues with my optical drive. I was burning a cd for a friend and it would not burn it or pop it out when I asked it to. I had to re-start while holding down the spacebar (or mouse button?) in order for the cd to come out. I forget which method I used, but using terminal did not work nor did the eject key.

    It has also done this while running iDVD to watch a movie. The iDVD interface will not work and produces the spinning beachball of death and then I cannot eject the DVD. I either have to leave it alone for the night or restart the computer. Only then will iDVD stop acting up so I can eject the DVD.

    Does anyone know why this is happening? Is it all to blame on the optical drive? I just went to the Apple Genius Bar a few weeks ago for a new battery. I hoping my MBP isn't falling apart.
     
  2. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    Tend to agree that the optical drive is all on the way out

    cheers ...
     
  3. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    Sounds like a faulty optical drive. Your best bet is probably to go back to the Apple store and get it fixed.