Disc Insertion Problem

Has anyone noticed that inserting a disc into the iMac drive can become difficult after a couple of years of use? At first I thought there was a disc in the drive that wouldn't mount or eject, but the drive turned out to be empty. Insertion, however, required moderate force, as if part of the internal drive mechanism was resisting. Is this a problem in the making? Should I have it checked out by a certified technician before anything gets worse? I've never experienced this before. (I sure miss that reassuring pinhole!)

Try a commercial DVD head cleaner you insert to DVD drive.
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when trying to startup with install disc inserted,all i get is an apple logo.when using command v keys,it seems to see the cpu, but doesn't list any drivers.any idea what,s wrong?

That is the wrong system disc, the Mid 2007 Mac Mini's originally came with Tiger 10.4. You must have been sent the wrong disc, because that gray 10.6 system disc is obviously for a later Mac.
Mac mini (Mid 2007) - Technical Specifications
At this point I'm afraid that your options are very limited.
1. Call Apple, have your serial # handy and ask for a replacement Tiger disc set. Problem is that it wouldn't be of much use, except for maybe running the Apple Hardware Test.
Apple - Support - iMac - Service FAQ
2. Purchase a Retail Snow Leopard Upgrade disc.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Apple Store (U.S.)
As for the RAM, if 2GB is shown in both Apple / About This Mac and in the Activity Monitor then there is a pretty good chance that's it OK. Of course it is hard to test without the original disc set and in your case may need to be done with a third party RAM checker like Memtest OS X

How do I print pictures from a disc inserted into the Apple Superdrive connected to the 2011 MacBook Air?

How do i print pictures from a disc inserted into the Apple Superdrive connected to the 2011 MacBook Air by USB port? Thanks

How do i import them? The only place i can find them is on "Finder" and I don't know how to get them to a place where I can print them.

The disc inserted does not have enough free space

I created a disk image about 451 MB, it an Audio Disk. When I try to write the image to a blank Memorex CD-R 700 MB I get the message: "The disc inserted does not have enough free space".
When I created the image I used the disk utility and followed the help file instructions. When I open File> New> I can only select "disk image from folder", the other option is grayed out.

wow, this is my first real disappointment with my MacBook. I can't burn images, technical support didn't get me any further than I already was. I spent half a day trying everything in the world to burn an image with no success.(followed all the help instructions) Now I have to go into the Apple store to have them go through all the same stuff I went through today. Two days of working on this computer to burn a CD with no success.
My guess is that at the end of the day tomorrow I will walk away from the store with no computer because of a malfunction. What a wasted weekend.

Update/Insert Problem with Oracle Warehouse Builder

Hello,
i have update/insert problem with owb.
Situation: I have a source-table called s_account and a target table called w_account_d. In the target table are already data which was filled trough the source table inserts. Now anyone make changes on data on the target table. This changes should now give further on the source table with an update operation. But exactly here is the problem i can´t map back the data to source because that will create a loop.
My idea was to set a trigger but i can´t find this component in owb or is anywhere hidden?
Also i have already seen properties as CDC or conditonal loading in the property inspector of the table, but i have no idea how it works.
Give it other possibilities to modeling this case? or can anyone me explain how i can implement this eventually with CDC?
I look forward for your replies :)

Hi
thanks for your answer. I follow your suggestion and have set the constraints of both tables into the database directly.Nevertheless it doesn´t work to begin. In the next step i found by right click on a table the listpoint "configure" - I goes to "unique key" --> creation method and set here follow options: Constraint State = ENABLE, Constraint Validation = Validate. That error message that appears before by the deployment disappears yet. Now i start the job to test if the insert/update process works right. Finally it seems to work - but not really.
My Testscenario
1. Load the data from source table about the staging area to data warehouse table: Check - it works!
2. Change one data record in source table
3. Load the source table with changed data record once again to staging area: Check - it works!
4. Load new staging area table with the changed data record to data warehouse table: Check it works! BUT, BUT i can not recognize if it is insert or update operation, then under the design window by jobs execution windows is reported "rows selected 98", Rows inserted" is empty and "rows updated" is empty. So i think works not correct, then my opinion if it works correct it should show be "rows updated" 1.
What can yet now still be wrong or forgotten? Any ideas?
*By the way think not 98 rows there is not important if you make an update or insert which performance. It is an example table the right tables have million of records.*
I look forward for your answers :)

CRUD insert problems.

Hello all,
I was wondering about DB operations in JSF pages, so I took a look over the Single Page CRUD example. What hitted me was there is a need for a two step insertion, first by issuing a select in search for the biggest ID of the primary key, and after that the insertion of the element with that obtained biggest ID + 1. I see at least 2 problems with this approach:
1. Concurrency issues.What happends if 2 users are issuing at the same time an insert operation over the same table? There is the possiblity of getting the same ID to insert, and the first one could insert, but the second one would fail even if it's request is logically corect (validated & converted). I see three solutions over the insert problem:
a. lock on the database (if it's possible).
b. using a synchronized block in the application bean to get the ID and insert.
c. using DB specific constructs (e.g. MySQL's AUTO_INCREMENT)
2. Overhead issues. Why doing in two steps an operation that should be just an insert? Previous a. an b. approaches do not solve our overhead problem, because we still have two steps in insertion; we only synchronize them.
I was wondering which is the best practice for production quality web applications. Personally because I've picked MySQL as DB I've used AUTO_INCREMENT, but the immediate huge and obvious drawback is dumping DataProvider's capability of changing the storage medium at a glance.

I'm not sure if I entirely understood your questions here.
- Concurrency problem.
database bound Data provider underneath uses CachedRowset, which uses SyncProvider to take care of concurrency problem. If the default RIOptimisticProvider is not enough, it possible to register other more sophisticated SyncProvider.
You can read about it here.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/sql/rowset/CachedRowSet.html
- Overhead issue
I believe, it is possible to let the DB auto increment the primary key field, and left it out in the insertion from data provider.
- Winston
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/winston?catname=Creator

HT1444 i have a mac osx 10.4 11..what update and cost?also disc inserter n/w

i have a mac os x 10.4.11 can i update to osx 10.5 at what cost also disc inserter n/w

Hello,
So we know more about it...
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac, then click on More Info, then click on Hardware> and report this upto but not including the Serial#...
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 6 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.21f4

"Disc inserted does not have enough free space"

I am ready to burn my slideshow on a DVD. The info window in the project indicates that I am well within the parameters to fit on a DVD (4.7 GB). All the gauges are green. However, when I go to burn the disk I get the error message: "Disc inserted does not have enough free space". Looking at the info palette from the Finder window regarding the disk image, I find that it requires 5.8 GB, which, of course, won't fit. How come the iDVD project says I am good to go when I am not?
I have OSX 10.4.11 and work on a G5. I have 53 GB available.

Perhaps you may wish to use Dual Layer DVD-R Media (Verbatim / Maxell) in the event your mac supports this newer media. If not, you can add an ext. FW Burner preconfigured from Lacie or do what I did and build your own:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5826029&#5826029
and here's how I select Dual layer via the ext. FW Burner as opposed to the stock S-drive:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5566746&#5566746
The only other option that comes to mind for SL as well as DL medias is burning said image with Roxio Toast (fit to disc option).
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Can't get super drive to play disc in dvd player it states disc not supported that for any disc inserted into the player

can't get super drive to play disc in dvd player it states disc not supported that for any disc inserted into the player

Hi, not sure it works in 10.9, but...
DVD Player doesn't like external players, use VLC Player...
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100208120847220
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20111107064435227

HP DV6 recovery disc require problem

Hi there, i just bought a hp dv6 laptop.
After i change my system locale, win7 restart.
But then it keep asking me insert my win7 disc.
As i just got my laptop, so i didint make any recovery disc yet.
Whatever i rest my laptop, i sitll cant fix this problem.
I try to press F11, but still ask me recovery disc.
What i can do? I cant get in to the windows7. Is anybody can help me?

Hi, Steve,

Automatic startup upon disc insertion

When using the feature of dragging my content into the box that says it will automatically start playing the DVD when inserted into a player, the disc will burn just fine and will work as expected in my computer. However, it will not work at all when inserted into a conventional DVD player.
I've also noticed that a regular menu will not work if I don't insert a photo or video into the menu. This used to work in iDVD 3, but doesn't work in iDVD 5.

I use both Verbatim and Ritek, both at 4x. I drag and drop photos into the menu drop zones, which works just fine. It's when I leave the menu drop zone empty that the DVD won't play. I don't know if it's relative or not, but I've had an incredible number of problems since switching from Jaguar to Panther.

C5280 disc printing problem

to all who had this problem of disc printing, I have now solved the problem.
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The only solution I have found is to uninstall and reinstall the HP software. Just after reinstalling, you can use HP Solution Center and under Printer Settings, select CD. This should set the paper size correctly. However, it will only print correctly on 8 1/2" x 11" paper if you set the printing properties for regular paper. If you Apply these settings so that 8 1/2" x 11" is the current default, you will likely not be able to set the paper size to CD again. The only solution I have found in this case, is to uninstall and reinstall the HP software. What a pain!
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BD335i doesn't pick up when disc inserted first time and shows tracks on itunes when no disc

I have a BD335i (SATA) Blueray player / writer installed in my own build high spec machine, running Windows 7 Pro, with latest updates. Ever since I built it the BD player won't recognise a disc when it is first inserted and it takes a couple of tries before it does. I have deleted the driver from device manager and allowed Windows to find the correct driver, but it always has the same problem.
Also in iTunes it shows a number of tracks present, but "unavailable" when there is no disc in.

Hello Warrior,
So basically, the drive is randomely recognizing any disk when it wants to. You have to reinsert the disk several times to get it to react, no matter what type of disk it is.
Could be the lens is dirty, but not so likely on a new drive. IF its newly purchased, I would take it back to the store for an exchange. Those symtoms are of a physically malfunctioning drive, not driver related.
I do not see a firmware update to download from HP either.

Imac optical drive will not allow disc insertion. (blocked)

Hello out there.
I have a 2009 27" imac (intel) with an optiarc disc drive. After installing an update a year or so ago, the disc drive started making cycling type noises at startup, and would occasionally not allow insertion of a disc. Then it would accept a disc only rarely, and recently not at all. The disc will only go in about a third of the way, then is physically blocked.
I want to run the Apple hardware test on my startup disc, but that's obviously a problem since I can't insert it.
If anyone can offer guidence, it would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, jakeonbell

It may be broken or you might just need to do a PRAM reset 2-3 times. Instructions for the reset are in Intel iMac SMC and PRAM resets

What causes Media not present error, even with disc inserted

I have a 2 hr video project that I would like to place on a DVD in NTSC format. I get an error msg "Media not present" even with DVD inserted in burner. I have checked "Fit content to available space". Is the 2 hr project too long to compress onto the DVD, or are there other possible causes? I did a 1 1/2 hr project with no problems. I have plenty of hard drive space.

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What version of Premiere Elements and on what computer operating system is it running?
The problem is the disc in the burner tray not being recognized by Premiere Elements. Another frequent related issue is Burner Location: in burn dialog being empty when the Premiere Elements does not recognize the burner.
In the problem that you have,
a. Have you tried other brands/types of DVD discs?
b. If you start a new project and take the new Timeline content to DVD-VIDEO on DVD disc, does the problem remain the same?
B. Have you tried program uninstall/free ccleaner run through/reinstall with antivirus and firewall(s) disabled?
If you are in a time crunch, you should consider burning the Timeline content to folder and then taking the VIDEO_TS Folder from that
saved folder into a program like ImgBurn for the DVD-VIDEO on DVD production.
Please review and consider and then we will supply you with how to details. Looking forward to your results.
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