aieeee, why does this cd not work?

[brians.account]

alright, so brian wants to burn a cd on the ibook that he has neglected to use for burning. he goes to the cupboard and gets a Sony CD-R 700MB "Supreme" Disc. he puts it in his ibook aaaand...

You have inserted a disk containing no volumes Mac OS X can read. To continue with the disk inserted, click Ignore or Eject.

I try different cd's from the same pack...same thing.
I try the discs on my family's iMac g5, same thing.

I'm running 10.3.9
imac's running 10.4.?

are there such thing as blank disks that are incompatible with os x?
thanks,
-brian

 

[randas]

strange, ive never had that. Just try get some diffrent cds and try those.

 

[yoda13]

I have had past experiences with various brands of disks and some just don't work well in Macs....I have NO idea why. I wish I could remember the ones that didn't work for me and tell you. Oh well...I would just try a different brand.

 

[brians.account]

i tried one from my brother's newer pack of the same brand and they worked, maybe the other pack was messed up somehow. thanks for the help!

 

[quigleybc]

Must have been damaged some how...

 

[thequicksilver]

I'm pleased you mention this, because I've had this with a couple of my own DVD-Rs. They haven't worked in my iBook's slot loading drives, producing the same message you got.

But they work fine in my external firewire DVD drive. I have no idea why, but one thing's for sure - I'm putting that data onto another DVD sharpish so I don't lose it.