Combo Drive Problem - External Replacement - iDVD Help

Recently the Combo Drive on my flat panel iMac went bad. It no longer does anything. I see that this is a common senerio.
I just purchased an external CD/DVD multi recorder (HP 940 - USB). It works great went burning CD's (from iTunes) and Burn folders. However, whenever I try to burn from iDVD the computer doesn't seem to know that it is plugged in. It just ejects my internal combo drive drawer which doesn't work. Does anyone know how to get the iMac to recognize an external burner when burning from iDVD?
Thanks.
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions.
The Patchburn (link) driver might help but iDVD isn't the best for working with any old 3rd party burner.
It could also be a USB thing. Most iMac G4 have USB1.1 which is really too slow for proper DVD burning. If it has it connect the device via the much faster Firewire connection.
Let us know how you get on.
mrtotes

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Like altero said, you're not using Toast properly... Follow these directions:
Suggest you create a disc image from iDVD and then burn the DVD. In iDVD: File/Save as Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. If you hold your mouse cursor over the pop-up it says: "Select a slower speed to work around burn failures," so select 4x or slower for best results. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

Doen't play DVDs -either internal Combo drive nor external drive

Hello There,
When I try to play a DVD with Combo Drive of my iBook G3, sooner or later the picure stops and the computer is frozen– cannot quit the software "DVD player", no reaction given to any button and mouse.
Once I brought my computer to the service, where they said it was a hardware problem and they only could exchange the drive.
Now I've got an external DVD Writer and still have the problem.
(So I suppose it's not the hardware.)
Using VLC instead of DVDplayer, anything is the same. But VLC showed error messages : ffmpg : more than 5 secounds of late video ->dropping frame (computer too slow?)
I cannot believe that the computer is to slow, because it WAS showing DVDs before.
If this information helps : Power PC 750, Processor 600MHz, Memory 384 MB, SDRAM, Bus 100 MHz.
By the way, another problem I´ve got with my Combo is, that it can burn audio CD but no data CD-any trials comes out with an error.
Can anybody help me ?
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I guess I'll just have to put a new MoBo in it.
Don't waste your time or money. You'd still be stuck with that tiny low-resolution screen and the wrong aspect ratio for DVD movies. The logic board from the slightly faster FireWire-equipped clamshell is the only other LB that might fit, though from what I've just read at iFixit, it won't. I doubt that it would do much (if any) better than the LB you've got, even if it did fit. A clamshell iBook just isn't the machine to play DVDs on.

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Because this Mac Book will be sold as the combo drive model, will it have iDVD installed? It seems I remember that iDVD cannot install if there is not an internal dvd burner.
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Thanks Rob,
I know the DVR-110 works, I have it installed on an older G4 that is close to dead (power up issues).
My plan is to pull that DVR-110 out of there, put it in an external enclosure and use as external burner for the Mac Book. I think that'll work now that you've enlightened me on the iLife 06 pre-installed status of the Mac Books. Thanks for that:)
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I installed Leopard the hard way, using firewire target disc mode, but it's on. The reason is the original combo drive wouldn't recognize the Leopard install disc. It has trouble recognizing any DVD. CD's are fine for the most part. Now the weird part, Disc util and the system profiler always recognize the drive. Even with media in the drive, the software will recognize it, but might not recognize the media in the drive. I've read plenty of posts here with similar symptoms, what gives? I realize 10.5 is the last roundup for the Power PC processor, but other software besides system software is installed using optical media. Should I replace the drive? Is there a software solution I'm missing? Totally confused.
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Firmware Revision: Z1.4
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Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
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Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
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I'm curious why there are so many messages here with MDD Macs and the super/combo drives appear to be conking out.
Besides being old and outdated, they're really isn't a mystery as to why "so many" posts are made.
The drives have reached end of service.... they're worn out. Drives are not meant to last forever.
That, combined with the fact that media has improved in speed, quality, and changed in construction, makes for a drive, based on old standards of media, that cannot handle the newer media.
And, the majority of those posts are most quickly resolved with the new replacement drive.
In some cases, the problem is resolved by simply cleaning the lens (with a $15+ kit), or by locating a problem in the OS, which can be tested in a new user account. With complete troubleshooting, a small % are found to be OS problems. Many of these, however, require OS reinstall. Kind of hard to do with a drive that isn't working well with the system (or vice-versa).
Bottom line, is, there isn't much to be gained buy keeping an old 4x drive, when a new 20x drive, that has better media compatibility and is so much faster, is so cheap.
And, as you said, a functioning optical drive is necessary. So, which path- troubleshooting, or, replacement?
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Power Mac G4 (QuickSilver), (Mirrored Drive Doors): CD-RW, DVD and SuperDrive Specifications and Usage Information
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My combo drive has recently developed a problem where it will not accept any disks that I insert into it. Instead of pulling the disk in, it just sits there. If I push it in a little further, it kind of springs back out. I have not had problems before. Any ideas? Is there a diagnostic program that could check the drive?
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John Mc

John,
I agree with JeremyP, it sounds like your combo drive has serious problems & needs to be replaced. My guess is misaligned laser. If you live near an Apple Store, take it there to have one of the geniuses look at it. I had to have mine replaced when it rejected more DVDs than it accepted. It's refusal to accept CDs was probably not far off.
Peggy

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I have a similar situation to the gentleman below, where i have two optical drives installed in my MDD, and the top one is a Pioneer 109 i replaced a couple of years ago, but the bottom one is the original Phillips combo drive that came with the machine.
Well, it used to be that every now and then, the combo drive would just disappear from the eject menu, and then some time later it would show back up. I was unable briefly to burn cds from the superdrive, but that's back. i zapped the pram a few times, disconnected/reconnected all of the cables and even reset the pmu for good measure.
still no combo drive. did the drive just suddenly fail? this was the error list in console for the previous Pioneer error:
Finder: Burn started, Mon Jun 4 07:52:03 2007
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Finder: Requested burn speed was 32x, actual burn speed is 32x.
Finder: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
Finder: Burn finished, Mon Jun 4 07:53:14 2007
Finder: Verify started, Mon Jun 4 07:53:14 2007
Finder: Discrepancy in block 17 at byte 8.
Finder: Source data: 0243 4430 3031 0100 0041 0050 0050 004C
Finder: Burned data: 0243 4430 3031 0100 0141 0050 0050 004C
Finder: Verify failed, Mon Jun 4 07:53:15 2007
Finder: Burn started, Mon Jun 4 07:54:13 2007
Finder: Burning to CD-R media with SAO strategy in PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109 1.58 via ATAPI.
Finder: Requested burn speed was 32x, actual burn speed is 32x.
Finder: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
Finder: Burn finished, Mon Jun 4 07:55:25 2007
Finder: Verify started, Mon Jun 4 07:55:25 2007
Finder: Discrepancy in block 17 at byte 8.
Finder: Source data: 0243 4430 3031 0100 0041 0050 0050 004C
Finder: Burned data: 0243 4430 3031 0100 0141 0050 0050 004C
Finder: Verify failed, Mon Jun 4 07:55:25 2007
Finder: Burn started, Mon Jun 11 19:15:01 2007
Finder: Burning to CD-R media with SAO strategy in PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109 1.58 via ATAPI.
Finder: Requested burn speed was 32x, actual burn speed is 32x.
Finder: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
Finder: Burn finished, Mon Jun 11 19:15:37 2007
Finder: Verify started, Mon Jun 11 19:15:37 2007
Finder: Verify finished, Mon Jun 11 19:15:39 2007
As you can see, it finally worked tonight. But like I said, still not combo drive.
Any ideas? Thanks so much in advance!

Dave,
I was just wondering that if it came down to replacing the ribbon cable itself, if I needed to pick a particular type. I've got an external enclosure I can test the drive in to confirm it's dead, but if the drive powers up and mounts as well as burns a disc, then the only other possibility I can think -- other than what you said about a cable being pinched -- is that the ATA cable itself cracked or one of the wires has a short that worsened over time. I mean, it's an older machine so I was just wondering if I needed to be on the lookout for another cable.
Thanks!

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Fine, if you won't listen to advice, there is nothing I or anyone else can do to help you. But remember this is a troubleshooting user to user forum. As such you'll primarily get the posts of people in a hospital ward. You will rarely get successful machines with no trouble at all. It is a survey of the lemons. Opinions like "These drives are junk" are based purely on hearsay. Instead of pasting opinions, let's deal with the facts, and try and find out what really is going on that is wrong. You may have gotten a bad optical drive, but we need to eliminate causes that could elicit the same symptoms first before saying there is no doubt this is the case. Have you replaced the PRAM battery or not in the last 4 years?

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Recently, I swapped out a broken Matshita drive.
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Firmware Revision: DZ13
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
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Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw
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Anyone have a theory?
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John,
I agree with JeremyP, it sounds like your combo drive has serious problems & needs to be replaced. My guess is misaligned laser. If you live near an Apple Store, take it there to have one of the geniuses look at it. I had to have mine replaced when it rejected more DVDs than it accepted. It's refusal to accept CDs was probably not far off.
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Alex,
Welcome to the Discussions.
If this behavior is intermittent, I would think it is a hardware problem.
Can you return functionality to the drive by removing the optical drive, then reinserting it while the 'book is running? These media bay devices are hot-swappable.
Or can you return functionality by sleeping the 'book, then waking?
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My problem is a little different from the others I've read about here. Audio CDs and DVDs go in the drive, the drive spins, the drive stops spinning, the disc is not ejected it just doesn't play. Data discs work fine, I just loaded the new iLife and iWork using this drive without any problems.
The drive shows up on the profiler just fine and I've checked all the settings to ensure there are commands for what to do with CDs and DVDs. I ran the disc utility and the drive shows up, I repaired the permissions. I did everything I could find to do.
So, do I have a bad drive like everyone else or could it be something different?
TIA

It probably reverts back to the statement you made. ( I burned some DVD's on another computer).
What other computer?
What software was used to burn?
What Format Disc's were used to do the burn?
All or any one of these can affect your ability to read burned media.
If your combo drive is only capable of reading DVD-R Media then if you put in + or RW Media then there is your problem.
If you burned the DVD on a PC and the software was set to PC only, there is your problem.
Many of the Software on the market give the options to burn and be for PC only, Mac only, or PC & Mac compatible.
I realize that in a perfect world you just put in any media, and it will read and write it. Sorry it isn't the case.
Try to use DVD-R Media, it is the most widely recognised.
http://www.videohelp.com/dvd
Don

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Hi-
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 Cheers, Tom

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I'm currently visiting my sister in France. She has a Flat Panel iMac (800mhz/256 mb ram) running 10.3.9 which is used each day mainly for web surfing and some general multimedia tasks. The machine recently adopted some odd behaviour. It was spitting out all discs. This seemed to be irrespective of the type of content. Although some CDR with pdfs and an occasional music CDR would be recognised. The machine has been kept in a fairly dusty environment.
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Cleaned the drawer with a dry air spray
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