Help please! Issues with Superdrive.

I was ahving huge issues with my MBA these past days. Now I was able to boot with the OS X dvd and reinstall the OS. the installation went well, but now I have an eject symbol in the upper right corner of the system bar and it seems my USB port is either fried or locked. I can not use any other USB devices (wanted to hook up to my external HD to backup all my stuff and then zero out my MBA and clean install). its strange. I can restart the MBA pressing C and then the Superdrive runs. Guess this speaks against the USB port being fried.
Would appreciate any help given soon!!

Sorry if this is too basic and you have tried it but here goes:
to eject the superdrive select the icon for it on the desk top (with the s-drive connected) then press and hold down the eject button on the keyboard upper most right on keyboard.
You may even need to have the disc in the drive but I doubt that.
Or go to iTunes or Finder, select the drive and eject from there.

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Please assist with a solution to the following error!
See log below
** Begin FDM Runtime Error Log Entry [2011-10-07 13:43:39] **
ERROR:
Code............................................. -2147217900
Description...................................... You do not have permission to use the bulk load statement.
BULK INSERT POLFDM..tWkalnic158050364335 FROM N'\\pochfm04\apps\POLFDM\Inbox\tWkalnic158050364335.tmp' WITH (FORMATFILE = N'\\pochfm04\apps\POLFDM\Inbox\tWkalnic158050364335.fmt',DATAFILETYPE = N'widechar',ROWS_PER_BATCH=221593,TABLOCK)
Procedure........................................ clsDataManipulation.fExecuteDML
Component........................................ upsWDataWindowDM
Version.......................................... 1112
Thread........................................... 5036
IDENTIFICATION:
User............................................. kalnickim
Computer Name.................................... POCHFM04
App Name......................................... POLFDM
Client App....................................... WebClient
CONNECTION:
Provider......................................... SQLOLEDB
Data Server...................................... pochfmsql01\hfm
Database Name.................................... POLFDM
Trusted Connect.................................. False
Connect Status.. Connection Open
GLOBALS:
Location......................................... BW
Location ID...................................... 751
Location Seg..................................... 5
Category......................................... ActSeg
Category ID...................................... 38
Period........................................... Sep - 2011
Period ID........................................ 9/30/2011
POV Local........................................ True
Language......................................... 1033
User Level....................................... 1
All Partitions................................... True
Is Auditor....................................... False
** Begin FDM Runtime Error Log Entry [2011-10-07 13:43:40] **
ERROR:
Code............................................. -2147217900
Description...................................... Data access error.
Procedure........................................ clsImpDataPump.fImportTextFile
Component........................................ upsWObjectsDM
Version.......................................... 1112
Thread........................................... 5036
IDENTIFICATION:
User............................................. kalnickim
Computer Name.................................... POCHFM04
App Name......................................... POLFDM
Client App....................................... WebClient
CONNECTION:
Provider......................................... SQLOLEDB
Data Server...................................... pochfmsql01\hfm
Database Name.................................... POLFDM
Trusted Connect.................................. False
Connect Status.. Connection Open
GLOBALS:
Location......................................... BW
Location ID...................................... 751
Location Seg..................................... 5
Category......................................... ActSeg
Category ID...................................... 38
Period........................................... Sep - 2011
Period ID........................................ 9/30/2011
POV Local........................................ True
Language......................................... 1033
User Level....................................... 1
All Partitions................................... True
Is Auditor....................................... False
** Begin FDM Runtime Error Log Entry [2011-10-07 13:43:40] **
ERROR:
Code............................................. -2147217900
Description...................................... Data access error.
Procedure........................................ clsImpProcessMgr.fLoadAndProcessFile
Component........................................ upsWObjectsDM
Version.......................................... 1112
Thread........................................... 5036
IDENTIFICATION:
User............................................. kalnickim
Computer Name.................................... POCHFM04
App Name......................................... POLFDM
Client App....................................... WebClient
CONNECTION:
Provider......................................... SQLOLEDB
Data Server...................................... pochfmsql01\hfm
Database Name.................................... POLFDM
Trusted Connect.................................. False
Connect Status.. Connection Open
GLOBALS:
Location......................................... BW
Location ID...................................... 751
Location Seg..................................... 5
Category......................................... ActSeg
Category ID...................................... 38
Period........................................... Sep - 2011
Period ID........................................ 9/30/2011
POV Local........................................ True
Language......................................... 1033
User Level....................................... 1
All Partitions................................... True
Is Auditor....................................... False
** Begin FDM Runtime Error Log Entry [2011-10-07 13:55:38] **
ERROR:
Code............................................. -2147217900
Description...................................... You do not have permission to use the bulk load statement.
BULK INSERT POLFDM..tWkalnic46564644597 FROM N'\\pochfm04\apps\POLFDM\Inbox\tWkalnic46564644597.tmp' WITH (FORMATFILE = N'\\pochfm04\apps\POLFDM\Inbox\tWkalnic46564644597.fmt',DATAFILETYPE = N'widechar',ROWS_PER_BATCH=221593,TABLOCK)
Procedure........................................ clsDataManipulation.fExecuteDML
Component........................................ upsWDataWindowDM
Version.......................................... 1112
Thread........................................... 4644
IDENTIFICATION:
User............................................. kalnickim
Computer Name.................................... POCHFM04
App Name......................................... POLFDM
Client App....................................... WebClient
CONNECTION:
Provider......................................... SQLOLEDB
Data Server...................................... pochfmsql01\hfm
Database Name.................................... POLFDM
Trusted Connect.................................. False
Connect Status.. Connection Open
GLOBALS:
Location......................................... BW
Location ID...................................... 751
Location Seg..................................... 5
Category......................................... ActSeg
Category ID...................................... 38
Period........................................... Sep - 2011
Period ID........................................ 9/30/2011
POV Local........................................ True
Language......................................... 1033
User Level....................................... 1
All Partitions................................... True
Is Auditor....................................... False
** Begin FDM Runtime Error Log Entry [2011-10-07 13:55:38] **
ERROR:
Code............................................. -2147217900
Description...................................... Data access error.
Procedure........................................ clsImpDataPump.fImportTextFile
Component........................................ upsWObjectsDM
Version.......................................... 1112
Thread........................................... 4644
IDENTIFICATION:
User............................................. kalnickim
Computer Name.................................... POCHFM04
App Name......................................... POLFDM
Client App....................................... WebClient
CONNECTION:
Provider......................................... SQLOLEDB
Data Server...................................... pochfmsql01\hfm
Database Name.................................... POLFDM
Trusted Connect.................................. False
Connect Status.. Connection Open
GLOBALS:
Location......................................... BW
Location ID...................................... 751
Location Seg..................................... 5
Category......................................... ActSeg
Category ID...................................... 38
Period........................................... Sep - 2011
Period ID........................................ 9/30/2011
POV Local........................................ True
Language......................................... 1033
User Level....................................... 1
All Partitions................................... True
Is Auditor....................................... False
** Begin FDM Runtime Error Log Entry [2011-10-07 13:55:39] **
ERROR:
Code............................................. -2147217900
Description...................................... Data access error.
Procedure........................................ clsImpProcessMgr.fLoadAndProcessFile
Component........................................ upsWObjectsDM
Version.......................................... 1112
Thread........................................... 4644
IDENTIFICATION:
User............................................. kalnickim
Computer Name.................................... POCHFM04
App Name......................................... POLFDM
Client App....................................... WebClient
CONNECTION:
Provider......................................... SQLOLEDB
Data Server...................................... pochfmsql01\hfm
Database Name.................................... POLFDM
Trusted Connect.................................. False
Connect Status.. Connection Open
GLOBALS:
Location......................................... BW
Location ID...................................... 751
Location Seg..................................... 5
Category......................................... ActSeg
Category ID...................................... 38
Period........................................... Sep - 2011
Period ID........................................ 9/30/2011
POV Local........................................ True
Language......................................... 1033
User Level....................................... 1
All Partitions................................... True
Is Auditor....................................... False

Have you read the installation documentation? It appears that you did not take the time to do a basic level of troubleshooting. A simple Google search of the error message provides the root problem as well as the solution.
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I have attached a google search result for the error "You do not have permission to use the bulk load statement."
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3 - I have turned off the Automatically write changes into XMP, suggested on another topic, that made no noticeable differences to performance either.
4 - A few months ago when I was still running 2.1 I found a topic either here or on Google that told me to delete the entire previews folders and let LR recreate them from scratch, I did that back then and that did not make any difference either, turned out to be 24 hours of waste time for me.
5 - I tried changing the following settings under catalog settings (has not improved anything):
size: 2048 Pixels
quality: High
automatically discard 1:1 previews: Never
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8 - I have tried making my thumbnail previews different sizes, also makes no difference really, unless I go to the smallest size and then it seems ok but then it's hard to see what's going on at all with thumbnails that small.
9 - Lightroom is only using up 1.1 GB of available memory so I do no think the slowness relates to memory and I am running my memory in a proper DDR3 configuration.
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Hi Don
Thanks for the reply, I have tried changing any/all settings on the card set to performance versus quality and still it has no effect. I just got the latest video driver for the GT9800 which was released on the 3rd of March and that has no effect either. I tried loading the 32 bit version of Lightroom without any improvement to speed on the thumbnails whatsoever so that rules out the possibility of it being something to do with 64-bit.
I read an Adobe knowledgebase article saying that the Nvidia control panel conflicts with certain Adobe software but they do not say how to turn it off and I also cannot even find the answer to that on Nvidia's forums either. So I still cannot say whether or not the Nvidia control panel is the problem because I cannot disable it.
I phoned a friend this morning who is running Lightroom 2.3 on a simple Core-2 Duo machine and his thumbnails render in half the time that mine do and my hardware is top of the range stuff in comparison so you can imagine my frustration with this thumbnailing issue. My friend also has an Nvidia card 8800GT I think.
I have spent so much time on this and I am no further to a solution and this blurry thumbnail issue is seriously messing with my eyes and it does not make for a very pleasant user experience.
What concerns me is that while Lightroom is idle and the machine is idle Lightroom is not doing anything in the background like rendering thumbnails. It only starts rendering them once I scroll down a page, no doubt by design but for more powerful machines there is a lot of processing ability going unused. The thumbnails on the filmstrip render a lot faster compared to grid view but their rendering state is also not retained and once I have scrolled past 100 images and then scroll back they are all blurry again and I have to wait for them re-render all over again. All this re-rendering of thumbs is a really big waste of time.
I also noticed something else interesting this morning, I opened task manager and left it open while I was scrolling thumbnails (continuous scrolling without waiting for them to render sharp) and only one core was being used to do this processing, I tested this multiple times and left it open while I scrolled through 5000+ images and only one core the whole time was being used. Only once I stopped scrolling and Lightroom began it's rendering of the thumbnails (about 10-15 seconds after stopping scrolling) did it only then start using multiple processors, I'm not sure if that has something to do with anything and memory wise I have 4.2 GB of available memory and Lightroom is only using about 425 Mb of memory.
I have changed the size of my thumbnails to below halfway on the slider and that made only a slight difference, although now they are so small on this 30" screen that I am now suffering even more eye strain as a result.
I am busy loading LR 1.x to confirm whether any of these behaviours existed back then and will report back.

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o-kay. i am actually on vacation right now, but my ipod is a huge part of my travels and i'm having some problems.
i purchased a 30GB ipod video off of ebay and saved quite a few bucks in march. i haven't had any problems with it so far. it has worked like a dream!however, over the past few days it has been crashing and freezing up. so far, i have been able to restore it, and reset it so it doesnt freeze, but i can't get it to sync all my music from my itunes library. this is causing me stress.
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Because it's not a frequently asked question, we do not have the Facebook section in the FAQ document. Sorry about that.
There is no direct way to get a PDF document shown in the Facebook window into Adobe Reader for iOS. You need to go from (1) Facebook to (2) Safari (web browser), then to (3) Adobe Reader on iPhone (and iPad as well).
In the Facebook page showing a PDF document, tap the Share icon in the bottom toolbar.
Select "Open in Safari" from the menu that appears.
In Safari, tap anywhere in the document to show the toolbar (below the top toolbar).
Tap "Open in..." (label) in the toolbar.
Tap "Open in Adobe Reader".
Please let us know if it doesn't work for you.

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