DVD Drive wont read blank CD-R/DVD-R all of the sudden!

I searched the forums first cause I was almost certain this question would be on here, but I didn't see any!

All of the sudden my Mac Pro wont read blank CD-R's and blank DVD-R's. It will read burned disc and software just fine. I was burning with these same disc fine a few days ago.

I get this "This disc cannot be used because it is not recognized."

I tried rebooting with no luck! The only thing that I've done to my Mac lately is add a 1 TB External HD (Western Digital) to my mac through the 800 plug.

My boss is coming over soon to pick up some disc.

Any help would be swell!

maccompaq said:

I had that same problem with my Mac tower. I ended up buying a new DVD-CD from OWC and installed it myself. Bummer, because I had not burned many opticals with the drive that failed.

That is why I am waiting for a new Mac tower on Aug 7. Something that will let me get inside and muck around. I cannot easily replace an optical drive in an iMac so I will not buy it.

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Do you have a MacPro? Did you get the Pioneer DVR-112D?

Does the apple store install a new one or will apple ship it out?

So you removed the Western Digital external drive and now the DVD's are now recognized? Maybe I'm not following you. I downloaded Lingon, now do I need to remove the WD external?

madh said:

I just started with the same Mounting of Blank DVDs in finder problem. I read your post about the Western Digital, which I just installed the Button Manager for. I immediately went to my Activity Monitor, found a WDSrvice program. (sorry already lost the exact name), couldn't remove it, so I used Lingon to uninstall it. It was under "User Daemons". Walla!! My Mac mounts blank DVDs perfectly again!

Dave.


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I tried rebooting with no luck! The only thing that I've done to my Mac lately is add a 1 TB External HD (Western Digital) to my mac through the 800 plug.

My boss is coming over soon to pick up some disc.

Any help would be swell!

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latest update:

So I sent in my Super Drive to be replaced at the Apple store because the drive would only read a few DVD-R's and DVD+r's but not all of them. So they took it and replaced it. Then I got it home and it still didn't work. I've tried many brands of blank DVD's but none work.

I had apple just send me a new super drive this one does not have a brand on it but im sure it's the Pioneer and it looks brand new. Still doesn't read them.

I took out the old one and put in the new one today. Do I need to do anything else or change/install anything? Or is it plug and play? Here is my info on the drive..

Name : PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D
Type : Disk

Disk Identifier : disk4
Media Name : PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D Media
Media Type : DVDROM
Connection Bus : ATA
Connection Type : Internal
Connection ID : Device 0
Device Tree : /PCI0@0/PATA@1F,1/PRID@0/@0:0
Locked : Yes
Writable : No
Ejectable : Yes
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No
DVDROM : Yes
Optical Media Type : DVD+R
Device Type : CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Location : Internal
Total Capacity : 0 Bytes
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported
Disk Number : 4
Partition Number : 0
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Disk Description : PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D Total Capacity : 0 Bytes
Connection Bus : ATA Write Ability : Read Only (DVD+R)
Connection Type : Internal Capabilities : CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Connection ID : Device 0 Partition Scheme : Unformatted

Dave,

I opened Lingon.app and got this..



Then what do I do here?



Other Screen Shots That MIGHT help.

madh said:

I just started with the same Mounting of Blank DVDs in finder problem. I read your post about the Western Digital, which I just installed the Button Manager for. I immediately went to my Activity Monitor, found a WDSrvice program. (sorry already lost the exact name), couldn't remove it, so I used Lingon to uninstall it. It was under "User Daemons". Walla!! My Mac mounts blank DVDs perfectly again!

Dave.


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I tried rebooting with no luck! The only thing that I've done to my Mac lately is add a 1 TB External HD (Western Digital) to my mac through the 800 plug.

My boss is coming over soon to pick up some disc.

Any help would be swell!

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I removed the .plst file like you did. Then I went back into Lingon. The "users daemons" was empty. I assumed it was removed for good. I go to put in a burned CD-R, works fine, but still doesn't recognize a "blank" cd-r.

What is weird is that I had a Sony SuperDrive in my comp, but it read Pioneer DVR-111D in "Disk Utility", now I have a DVR-111D (one shipped from Apple) Do I need to reformat this drive?

Could it be "Boot Camp"? This too was also recently installed.

Also, the highlighted section says, "Not Writable". is that correct?

Mac Morons! :O)

It doesn't take a "Genius" to fix a Mac! When Apple sends you a part, it says to carfully hook 'drive' the same way the previous one was installed. I did. But then after wasting a whole day with Apple care I switched the connection on the back of the superdrive to from "top" to "drive". Problem solved. Apple wasted my time, gas, energy & money (i got a parking ticket outside the store) and all the guy/girl had to do was hook it up right!

Thanks for everyone's input.

It works beautiful!

Advise: If your superdrive, ram or something simple goes out on your Mac. Just have them send you the part.