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HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N not reading PS1 games ( Santa Rosa MacBook )

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Whitesnake

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Could owners of this MacBook please test to see if they can read PlayStation 1 Discs.

I tried in OS X / XP / Vista / all failed.

I'm not sure if my Optical Drive is defective or if it is a firmware issue as it can read everything else I've thrown at it.

My friends MacBook (older model) can read PlayStation 1 Discs and all my other Macintosh computers can also.

Please make sure you have the same Optical Drive.

HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N < it is made by LG I believe.

I have the 2.2ghz Core 2 Duo model.

Thanks
 
My SR MBP also will not read a PS1 disc. I never tried to before tonight, but I dont think theyre supposed to. Plastation discs are black, maybe the laser cant see through it.
 
My SR MBP 2.4GHz reads and burns PS1 and PS2 discs fine. Once in a while it won't, so I switch to using my Lacie DVD burner to read the disc.
 
I've never gotten a black disk to read or initialize in any way in my Macbook pro. It's not about PS1/PS2, because it read a silver PS1 game, but it won't recognize that store-bought black blank CD/DVD-Rs are even in the drive. A racist friend of mine really loved this, and he was the first one to put it together that it's just the black disks, not videogame discs alone.
 
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