It isn't the disk, its the drive. I'm assuming you have a matshita drive. The name says it all. I have one MacBook with a matshita and one with another brand that reads the leopard disc just fine.
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MBP Won't read Leopard DVD?!
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wish mine worked
Boy, I wish I could say the same thing. I downloaded a copy of leopard straight from apple developer. I figured I should make a couple copies so I could have backups and get it off my hard drive. I used my MBP to burn 2 copies of leopard with toast 8 and both were verified before being ejected. But, when I put them back into the mbp, they were rejected the same as others have decribed. So, i thought maybe something was wrong with toast, so I used Burn- wrote and verified fine, but still was spit out of the mbp.
The really annoying part here is that all 3 copies work in another mac G5 that I tried at my school!! What kind of screwed up *** is this? My mbp will make copies of the dvd image, but then it won't read them??? This is some crazy stuff and I hope apple gets on their game here. (note: I was using DVD +R DL DVDs - the MBP should write and read these just fine)
Macbook pro 15" 2.16Ghz Intel core 2 duo, purchased April '07
Heres my drive info:
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080MA:
Firmware Revision: AE39
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: No
AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGG!!!!!!
Boy, I wish I could say the same thing. I downloaded a copy of leopard straight from apple developer. I figured I should make a couple copies so I could have backups and get it off my hard drive. I used my MBP to burn 2 copies of leopard with toast 8 and both were verified before being ejected. But, when I put them back into the mbp, they were rejected the same as others have decribed. So, i thought maybe something was wrong with toast, so I used Burn- wrote and verified fine, but still was spit out of the mbp.
The really annoying part here is that all 3 copies work in another mac G5 that I tried at my school!! What kind of screwed up *** is this? My mbp will make copies of the dvd image, but then it won't read them??? This is some crazy stuff and I hope apple gets on their game here. (note: I was using DVD +R DL DVDs - the MBP should write and read these just fine)
Macbook pro 15" 2.16Ghz Intel core 2 duo, purchased April '07
Heres my drive info:
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080MA:
Firmware Revision: AE39
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: No
AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGG!!!!!!
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-85J:
Firmware Revision: FBZ8
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds
mine worked flawlessly.
Firmware Revision: FBZ8
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds
mine worked flawlessly.