Super-d-d-d-drive

[robert-a-hudson]

My superdrive seems to kind-of, clunk a bit when i burn a dvd (-rw, only disc i have with me at the moment), reading is fine (noisy but no clunks). Just wondering, is clunking normal, I have no idea, what with this being my first laptop, whether this is normal for such a tiny cd drive. I only know that my PCs dvd writers dont make a clunky noise, they are loud, but no clunks.
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So in short, any other mbp users got a clunky superdrive whilst burning a dvd (or cd)? Is this normal?

TIA

 

[robert-a-hudson]

curiously enough, it toasted that disc.

gave me the following error:
Burning the disc failed because communication to the disc drive failed. Error Code 0x80020022

how do i find out what the error code means? is it disc related or otherwise?

 

[yellow]

Unless something major has changed in the SuperDrive architecture (highly unlikely), then clunking is NOT normal.. And the error you got.. well there's 1 more troubleshooting step to maybe try before calling Apple for warranty work, and that's trying different media. Or, just take it into a Certified Apple Repair center.

 

[Josias]

Oh yeah, try burning a CD first (both -RW and -R).

 

[robert-a-hudson]

I managed to find a DVD+R disc, and that worked okay, took a complete age tho, and raised the temp by 5 degrees C (40-->45!) according to the temperature monitor widget. It then erased my old dvd-rw, which is now a 1.1TB disc according to DiscUtility (who needs blueray!)!!!!

I'll "borrow" one of my housemates cd-r's and see if that clunks too, or if it takes stupidly long!

Looks like i may be returning it due to my numlock led issue anyways, spose this'll give me more backing to get a new mbp, not a repair....but then, can i get it upped to a 17" if i do that....decisions decisions!

 

[robert-a-hudson]

Oh yeah, try burning a CD first (both -RW and -R).

dont have a cdrw about.... a cdr will have to do!

CD works, must have been a bum dvd-rw.

Anyway, looks like the mbp's off due to the numlock led :-(