A way to manually open super drive on G5 quad?
I want to boot from disc warrior but my G5 is freezing at the gray logo. I want to manually open the drive to insert the disc. and close it as well.
If you have a wired USB mouse, you should be able to get the CD tray to open at power-up by holding the mouse left button down. You will still be getting the gray screen probably, but you can at least get the disc into the tray.
An actual timesaver, though, would be to boot into open firmware holding down the cmd-option-O-F keys until you get the white Open Firmware terminal screen. Enter the following command:
eject cd <enter>
which should cause the drive to open. Insert the DW disc in the tray, then repeat the command, which should cause the drive to close. Then type the following command,
reset-all <enter>
which will cause a reboot of the system, then hold down the option key at or before the boot tone (chime) during that process to invoke the boot manager. Select the icon for the DW disc and click the arrow button on the right and you should be able to boot to the DW disc and go from there.
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I understand there is a way to use my Super Drive with my PC. However, it requires a System OS Disk. Which I never received. Can you help me with this?
Rick6812 wrote:
I'm using Windows 8.1.
I do not know what you mean by a Windows 8.1. Please clarify.
The Apple superdrive is designed to be used with the following Macs.
It will not work with any other Mac unless you perform this modification;
http://www.tuaw.com/2012/04/02/use-the-macbook-air-superdrive-with-any-almost-ma c/
Are you trying to get it to work with a PC?
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Super drive dvd player superdrive
the superdrive only lets you set a region 5 times so after that 5th time it is lockd and now i can only play dvd from asia is there a way to reset the super drive?
At the user level, you are
However, the standards specify that there are still three more service-level resets, each counting for 5 user resets, for a total of 20 region changes. So now you have to chummy up to a savvy Service Provider or Store Genius. Else you will remain as stated above.... -
CD Drive Door does not open after Super Drive Install
Yesterday, I installed a Pioneer DVR-109 8X DVD-R/RW Super Drive in my Power Mac G4 450 AGP Graphics. Everything seemed to fit back together just fine, but now I cannot open the drive door by pressing the button. I have to manually pull the door down and insert a paper clip to open the drive and insert a CD. Is there something I missed when putting the thing back together?
Power Mac G4 450 Sawtooth Mac OS X (10.3.9)Carolyn, welcome to Apple Discussions.
I had the same problem when I replaced the Apple CD/DVD drive on my G4 AGP with a drive that had write capabilities. The problem seemed to be a slight difference in the drive's front mounting dimensions. The plastic lever on the front bezel would not depress the button on the drive far enough. To fix the problem, I cut a slim section from a rubber eraser, & using masking tape, positioned the rubber spacer over the drives button. Now it works perfectly. You may have to experiment with how thick the rubber is.
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what is the easiest and best way to install or open flash drive in Sarfari on my 2010 macbook pro using mountain lion?
There is no really good way to do what you want. Any tracks you purchase via your own iTunes Store account are for your personal use, tied to your iTunes Store account, and can't be given to anyone else. If you don't want to gift the tracks to her and can't access her iTunes Store account, the only option other than creating her a completely new iTunes Store account (which will require a new email address for her) is to buy the CDs those tracks are on.
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Can a .pdf file burned on a MAC Super Drive be read on a Windows PC?
I have several .pdf files that are two big to email to a PC user. I burned them in two folders to a disk on the Super Drive. Will she be able to open them on her PC using WIndows?
Get a free DropBox account.
Drag the files into DropBox and you can get a link to send to your friend to download.
Another option with DropBox is to use a Shared folder. If you share files a lot with your friend, setup a Shared folder and everything in the folder will be shared. Obviously they also need to setup a free DropBox account (works on Windows). Just keep the folder size under the 2GB free limit.
For the future... OS X Yosemite Mail coming this fall, will offer a way to share files like DropBox.
Mail Drop allows you to attach large files via iCloud.
Attachments can be up to 5GB in size. -new feature in OS X 10.10 Yosemite Mail -
How do you clean a Super Drive?
I upgraded my daughter's Mac Mini 1.66 Intel from Leopard to Snow Leopard. Now she says it tends to eject DVDs. I just ran a test and it played a CD fine. It took two tries for it to read the Leopard install DVD which I tried next. Then I put in a movie and it also played on the second try. I guess we have either a failing drive or the laser that reads the disks is dirty.
What do you use to clean the Super Drive? I might as well clean all of the computer DVDs at home.After 4 years of pretty intense use my drive stopped burning DVDs but would still burn CDs and play DVDs. I kept getting the same media sense error. I tried cleaning the lens by shooting some compressed air in the slot, running a "cleaner" disc (with the brushes on it), and inserting a slim plastic card covered with a microfiber cloth. None of that worked. So I finally resorted to opening up my MacBook Pro, taking out the drive, and opening it up. All along the way I was blasting with compressed air to remove any dust or hairs I saw. I used a Q-tip dipped in rubbing alcohol to gently wipe the lens and another (unidentified) part that had some dust that wouldn't blow off. I put it all back together and it now burns DVDs again without errors. I am elated that I didn't have to buy a replacement optical drive. If you want to go this route I recommend following the instructions on ifixit.com. They'll show you how to get inside your laptop.
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Mac Book Air Super Drive fails to respond
The external Super Drive stopped responding today. I have tried the drive on another computer and that one doesn't see the drive either. Is there a way to manually eject a disk that is in this drive?
Have a look and see if the drive is appearing in the system profiler as a USB device. My original superdrive was faulty out the box, and while it was showing up in the system profiler, it wasn't mounting, nor visible in the filesystem, nevermind in the finder window.
The drive would accept a disk, and I could hear it spin up, but nothing happened, and the eject button didn't work.
If I remember correctly, I found restarting the macbook with the drive attached forced it to eject the disk.
I took the superdrive into my local Apple store (Cambridge, UK), and they replaced it there and then.
Hope this helps.
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Compact flash reader in second super drive slot? Suggestions/Recommendations?
I would love to add a internal compact flash reader as I do alot of photography. Is there a somewhat easy solutuon to adding one to the open slot under the cd/dvd super drive?
I coulden't easily find products for this... any suggestions or links to anyone who has done this would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.FAT32 format is OK.
Another way. You can use a USB flash drive & the camera connection kit.
Plug the USB flash drive (works the same with an SD card) into your computer & create a new folder titled DCIM. Then put your movie/photo files into the folder. The files must have a filename with exactly 8 characters long (no spaces) plus the file extension (i.e., my-movie.mov; DSCN0164.jpg).
Now plug the flash drive into the iPad using the camera connection kit. Open the Photos app, the movie/photo files should appear & you can import. (You can not export using the camera connection kit.)
Using The iPad Camera Connection Kit
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4101
Secrets of the iPad Camera Connection Kit
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57401068-285/secrets-of-the-ipad-camera-conn ection-kit/
Cheers, Tom -
Hi everyone,
I'm growing increasingly frustrated because I am unable to eject a disk from my super drive on my Powermac G5. The problem isn't that I don't know the key combinations or the assigned buttons for ejecting a disk. The drive simply will not eject the disk when the correct buttons are pushed. I can hear the drive "wanting" to eject it but it won't. The door seems to be stuck. Is there a fix to this problem (such as an adjustment that I can make regarding the alignment of the drive within the bay) or something like that?
Or do I need to go out and purchase a new drive from Apple or somewhere else? Please advise!
Thanks everyone! I appreciate the help.The Power Mac G5 manual has the following
*You are unable to eject a disc.*
A file on the disc may be in use. Quit applications that are open, then try again.
If that doesn’t work, choose Apple () > Restart and hold down either the mouse
button or the Media Eject key on your Apple Keyboard.
If that doesn’t work:
1 Shut down the computer.
2 Carefully press down the front panel covering the front of the drive tray and locate the
small hole below the drive tray.
3 Carefully insert the end of a large straightened paper clip into the hole.
4 Push firmly until the tray opens.
5 Pull out the tray, remove the disc, and push the tray to close it. -
My super drive closes too fast. Also the drive is very sensitive and when I place a dvd on the drive, it will close right away. Many times catching the dvd at an angle and getting stuck with the dvd hanging out and the drive trying to close.
Is there a way to make the drive less sensitive? Is there a way to set the drive to only open and close when I press the eject button? I want to control when the drive opens and closes, I don't want it to be automatic.Hi delnorte,
I agree with mooblie that your drive might be faulty.
My Mac Pro's Superdrive closes automatically after exactly 10 minutes.
I suppose there is a remote possibility that your Keyboard's eject button might be faulty. Do you have, or can you borrow, another keyboard to try out?
Also, possibly there might be a command in Terminal to sort out your problem, but I am afraid that I cannot advise you in that respect, because I do not have either the expertise or the confidence to delve into there.
I think Terminal is a no go area for many Mac users, which is probably a great shame, because, from reading articles in MacWorld UK and Mac Format, it is amazing just what can be done in there if you have the know-how.
If any "Terminal genius" is reading this, do you know of a solution therein?
Regards,
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So I recently had trouble with my DVD drive, it wouldn't boot from any of the CDs I owned (even ones it booted with before). So I went and bought a new DVD Super Drive (model: UJ-857-C Slim) and opened up my laptop and installed it. No problems at all with the physical installation. I put it all back together and cut my laptop back on, and what do ya know? my system profiler doesn't show there to be a burning device, and the disk utility doesn't show a DVD drive. So I went through and reset the PRAM and NVRAM and verified the HD and verified the permissions, everything looked fine, except my Super Drive still didn't show up. I inserted a music CD just to see if it would play it, and now it won't eject that either. (I used an old CD 'cause I figured it wouldn't give it back).
Now I know that with Windows based PCs there's a way to install drivers and detect new drives, is there something I need to do with my Mackbook to have the new drive be detected? Or am I just SOL and need to take it to the apple store and let them deal with it?Thanks for the input, Rodney! Unfortunately, I can't seem to figure out how to reformat it. Here's exactly how far I get...
1.) Boot up the computer to the OS Install DVD.
2.) Installer asks me what I wish my primary language to be. I select English and hit Continue.
3.) Installer shows OS description and tells me to hit Continue if I want to install. I click Continue.
4.) The license agreement comes up and I hit Continue and then Agree to move forward.
5.) I am asked to select a destination volume for the OSX installation. There are no options to select. The only button I can press is 'Back'. There is an 'Options' button as well, but it is ghosted.
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Mac Pro Super Drives Stuck Closed
Hi there, I've got an odd problem affecting both my MacPro's super drives. They're original factory super drives and recently they've both stopped opening.
To clarify, it's nothing to do with the flip down door mechanism, the drives themselves will not open. They respond to both manual and eject key requests whiring first open, and then eventually closed, but unless you insert a pin into the release port they both fail to 'unlatch' themselves from the closed position. Once manually unlatched they'll slide open and closed under their own power, and the drives themselves both work fine. But without fail you have to physically unlatch them to actually get a disk in or out.
So it's not the platter motor, there's nothing software related here, and it's nothing to do with the mac case itself as they exhibit this behaviour when removed from the housing.
Anyone got tips on fixing the 'latch' mechanism?
Ev.Mac pro 2008 or older? (uses IDE/ATA drives and 40-pin cables)
Or 2009 and newer? (uses SATA drives and compact cables)
Have you changed anything or added any software that might have anything to do with DVD readers? -
I'm trying to install a second DVD drive, but I'm having trouble opening the drive bay. I'm following the directions in the manual: latch is up, side panel removed, etc. But pulling the drive bay out halfway to reach the cables is impossible.
It moves perhaps a quarter inch and then refused to budge. I don't want to use force, fearing that the optical drive drawer may be stuck on something, and pulling too hard might break it.
Should it be this hard to pull out?Hi,
Pulling the thing out for the first time was a hassle for me too, eventually I jiggled with it from side to side moving out some millimeters at a time until it was out.
The Good news is that the whole thing is pretty robust so you can use reasonable force and after its out for the first time it looses a-bit and then slides in a more expectable way.
Have Fun,
Baryo. -
Snow Lepoard and my super drive
I have 2 mac books and installed Snow Leopard on both the first instal worked smoothly but my second which is my wives is killing me. The instal went threw but when it started up for the first time after the instal it said "super drive quit unexpecedly " it then gives me three option to quit or try again or something else. Anyway the computer runs fine but every time it starts up this window opens. Anyone know what I did wrong or a way to fix it? Thanks for your help and time
Hello s:
I have never seen that message (no help to you).
I think I would reinstall OS X 10.6 over the current system. Perhaps something went wrong with the original upgrade.
Barry
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