Laser Power Error!

Hi,
When I am trying to burns music disks I am getting the following error,
The attempt to burn a disk failed. The device failed to calibrate the laser power for this medium!
Then my mac spits out my blank Sony CD-R disk. I have been using this type of disk for months without and problems and also tried Maxell XL-II Music 80 Disks and they seen to burn okay but do not register the music on both hi-fi and apple equipment?
I had this same problem 2 months into owning my apple when it was new and got a new drive on warrantee, does this not mean as its no longer under warrantee that I have to get a new drive or at best buy a external one?!

I just wanted to tell everyone on this thread that I had this same problem and it's been solved. I have a 5 year old IMAC. I thought I'd just have to give it up and that the superdrive was going. But, I tried the $14 Memorex Optidisc (cleaning disk) that I bought at Circuit City and it worked like a charm. I've had no problems or error messages since. Thanks to David Jenson in another thread for suggesting it....

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i have a brand new macbok pro and ive had it for two weeks and this is the fisrt time ive tried burning a disc and an error message pops up that says: "Unable to burn disc.The device failed to calibrate the laser power for this media." I cant figure out how to fix this. Ive tried reinstalling itunes and ive restarted my mcabook plenty of times. please help me!
thnaks, Derrik

I've been getting the same "The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media." error. I've burned over a hundred DVD's using the same media and now the last 5 or so have failed with this error.
I tried another brand and still the same error. I also tried the International Language and compressed air fixes. Nothing. Still the same error.
My Macbook Pro as the Matshita UJ-857E drive.
Has anyone been able to fix this problem? My next step is to buy a CD/DVD drive lens cleaning kit.
Thanks,
Ken

Error Message while trying to burn a DVD-R with my MacBook Pro: "The disc can't be burned, because the device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media.

While using my Mac OS X Version 10.6.8 to burn a DVD-R I keep getting the error message: "This disc can't be burned, because the device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media."
So, I tried the iDVD and got the same error message.
Can anyone out there help me? I've tried both a DVD - R, and a CD.
I made a short 2:20 minute presentation from iMovie and used the "share" to iDVD, then to iTunes, then I tried exporting it to Quicktime and saved it on my desk top. That is when I tried burning by opening the blank DVD-R in the finder then draging the movie on to it and selecting the burn option. Thank you for your time in helping me with this frustrating problem.
Peace, Pyxidis

I have had that same problem, but it was unrelated to any upgrade.
In my case the optical drive was simply failing, and I replaced it - it was a Powerbook, about eight years old.
It is possible that it's unrelated to Lion, as unlikely as this may seem, since you've just upgraded.
Optical drives seem to be the most life-limited component in these computers. The laser just seems to get weak with age.

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I am getting this error message when trying to burn a DVD: The disc can’t be burned, because the device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media. iMac, Mac OS X 10.6.8 Memorex DVD-R 12x Any ideas?

First, try a different batch of recordable DVDs. If you still have problems, you may want to make an appointment at the genius bar and have it checked. The drive may be failing.

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I just upgraded my Mac to a 24" 2.4GHz Aluminum model last week. I went to burn a DVD this morning and got an error message that said "The laser power level has not be calibrated to burn this media". I'm using Toshiba 8x DVD-R media - the same media I have used for years with my previous Mac.
Does anyone know what this error message means??
Do I have a bad SuperDrive??
Did I miss something on the setup concerning the SuperDrive??
Any help or thoughts on the subject would be appreciated.

I had issues with two different methods of burning -
FINDER - popped in a DVD, it recognized as blank DVD. I moved some photos and files over to the DVD, then went to burn the DVD - got an error.
DVD2one - I was trying to burn a short home movie I had made, it processed the video and audio, then I got another error.
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I'm guessing the issue is with the Toshiba DVD-Rs I was using. I'll have to give the remainder of these DVDs to someone else and go buy some Memorex DVD-Rs instead. I guess I'll go find this week's adverts and see if I can find a deal some place.

Dvd burner error message "device failed to calibrate laser power"

When I try to burn a dvd, I get an error message:
The disc can’t be burned, because the device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media.
and then it spits out the disk. This has never happened before.
Advice?

If Wjosten's suggestion does not work, clean the dvds - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50448 or use another dvd brand - Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden are highly recommended by Mac users.

Error Message: "device failed to calibrate the laser power level..."

Receiving error message "The disc can't be burned, because the device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media."
What does this mean? What do I need to do? Happens with every disc I try.

It means your superdrive/optical drive has failed. That error, in my experience, is always a hardware problem. If you're under warranty, it will most likely be covered, unless there is any accidental damage to your system.
If you're out of warranty, optical drives aren't the most expensive component in the world if it's something you need on a regular basis.

Got a MacBook with 10.5.8 I am anable to burn cds, dvds, and dl dvds. Everything worked before I reformatted my computer but now it comes up with error messages like unable to communicate or something about the laser power levels. Help! Anyway to check

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Hi I am having the identical problem with my 24" intel iMac 2007..... Did you ever figure out what the problem was? I'm on round 3 now and with a completely blank grey screen and it won't start up from the disk 1.. I also have diskwarrior and techtool pro as well as the osx leopard and snow leopard disk... The HD is new.. Replaced by apple 3 months ago.. Don't know the cause the first time this happened about 9 months ago.. 2nd time, 6 months ago it never rebooted from the office for mac 2008 critical update... Did a clean install after backing up to TC... Took it to apple replaced HD even though it appeared ok, they checked all hardware and I ran techtool pro daily ever since. Last week software update had several updates avail. Office for mac being one of them.. I updated and have never booted since.. . I swear to never ever use another Microsoft product as long as I live if I can just fix this once more... Help me please

CDs work but not DVDs "device failed to calibrate laser power level for med

Hi
I've been having a problem with my disc drive.
I can burn CDs but not DVDs. Have OS 10.5.6.
While trying to burn an error message comes up saying
"This disc can't be burned because the device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media?
I tried to go into Apps - Utilities - Disk utilities and repair, but this message still shows up and refuses to burn anything even in Toast.
Please help. Any advice would be valuable. Thanks.

njdesigner wrote:
Thanks for the advice. I'm going to try the brands you suggested.
I don't think the drive may be dirty, because wouldn't the CDs not work as well?
Not necessarily. Different lasers, different power levels, etc.
It's really a dual drive: CD and DVD. Almost two separate devices with a common motor and platen,etc.
You can get a cleaning CD from RadioShack and elsewhere. Get the dry one with the small brushes. Works fine on everything but a notebook.

Failed to Calibrate the Laser Power?

I tried burning a MP3 CD from my 12" Powerbook G4 (867Mhz) running 10.5.1 and got the following error:
The attempt to burn a disc failed. The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media
Has anyone ever seen/heard of this? I tried a search on the keywords and didn't find anything.

I have similar problems. CDs nearly never burn no matter what make they are. Most of the time CD-Rs don't even get recognised and even if they do they only burn properly about 30% of the time. Same with DVDs. The only DVDs that never fail me are Sony. All other brands give errors or don't get detected.
Disk Utility usually gives me the 'laser power level' error and Toast gives me various error codes. Weird thing is that the problems only started a couple of months ago. Before that I didn't have any problems burning CDs or DVDs. Once they are burnt (on another computer) my MacBook Pro recognises the CDs and DVDs fine.

Laser Power Not Calibrated...

Hi, I tried to burn a DVD-DL last night on my new MacBook Pro, and got an error message that said (something like) Laser Power Not Calibrated. I tried Zapping pram, resetting power admin, resetting permissions, ran disk warrior, created a new account. Tried 3 different types of media. Tried to burn from disk utility as well as toast. The wierd part is that these programs wouldn't even try to burn. The drive recognized a blank disk, started to prepare the data, then quit, saying that the laser power wasn't calibrated.
After a few hours of this, I called apple. First time they were of no help. They hadn't heard of the error message. And the guy I was talking to suggested something he read on this board (change language settings. Doesn't work).
I was finally told to send it in.
Then, I tried burning a cd. It worked. After that, I could then burn dvds again! Anyone have any idea what's going on? Thanks.

I had issues with two different methods of burning -
FINDER - popped in a DVD, it recognized as blank DVD. I moved some photos and files over to the DVD, then went to burn the DVD - got an error.
DVD2one - I was trying to burn a short home movie I had made, it processed the video and audio, then I got another error.
I found some older Memorex DVD-Rs someone had given me a few years ago because they wouldn't work in their PC's DVD+R burner. When I used the Memorex DVDs, I could burn using both of the methods above.
I'm guessing the issue is with the Toshiba DVD-Rs I was using. I'll have to give the remainder of these DVDs to someone else and go buy some Memorex DVD-Rs instead. I guess I'll go find this week's adverts and see if I can find a deal some place.

Laser power levels

everytime I try and burn a playlist in i-tunes i get the error message tht the laser power level could not be calibrated for this media. I have tried many different brands of cd-r disks, verbatim, maxell, tdk... one of the tdk worked on the first disk of a multiple cd playlist but gave me the same message on the second. I can burn data onto dvd-r disks with no problem and have burned audio onto dvd-r in i-tunes with no problem. I do get error code
0x8002006D when i try to burn data on a cd-r outside of i-tunes. lowering the burn rate does nothing, and a few times a cd-r that didn't work suddenly got past the calibrate error only to stop with a medium write error. what can I do?

The most obvious reason I can think of, is a dirty lens or a (large) dust particle on it.
You can burn DVD, but get errors with CD. As the layers on those two media are at different depths, that could explain it.
Try compressed air to clean it. Of course it has to be free of traces of oil.
Be careful with it. Most 'compressed air' aerosols are in fact carbon dioxide, which, when used excessive, can freeze and damage delicate components.
An alternative would be a cleaning disc if compressed air doesn't help.
These normally don't work in slot loading drives.
M

Burner - device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media.

The burn to the MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-845E drive failed. The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media.
Huh?? Have no idea what this means, after a forum search am more confused... I don't think I've installed any software that has effected it (suggested in other discussions) The only other one that might have been useful was archived and I couldn't work out how to read all the threads so if anyone can help with this error message that would be awesome.

I just wanted to share my experience with this issue:
Early 2008 Mac Pro with two 16x SuperDrives (Sony NEC Optiarc 7170A). BOTH SuperDrives stopped working properly at the same time. After a few months of burning only CDs, I suddenly found myself unable to burn DVDs.
I could read and write CDs, but I could only read, not write, DVDs. Attempts to burn DVDs gave the dreaded "could not calibrate laser for this media" message in Finder, Disk Utility, and Burn. (console Burn error: 0x8002006D The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media.)
The fact that both SuperDrives went bad at the same time made me think that it had to be either the media or a software/firmware glitch.
I tried Memorex, TDK, and Verbatim media; neither would write. I tried canned air, a DVD-cleaning-disc kit, resetting SMC and PRAM (which of course involved rebooting), the International pref pane trick, even tried flashing the drive firmware with new and old firmware revisions. My last resort was to install Snow Leopard on a blank partition; I still got the same error message when trying to burn a DVD from the brand new, fresh OS install.
It seemed ridiculous to have a $3,000 machine unable to burn DVDs, so I ended up purchasing two new SuperDrives from MacSales/OWC. (Apple Original Pioneer DVR-112D-BK Internal [Black Bezel] 'SuperDrive' up to 16X DVD+/-R, up to 8X DVD+/-RW, Up to 8X Dual Layer +/-R DL, up to 32X CDR/RW Burner.) These were available to ship the same day for $34/ea.
I just received them; it took only 15 minutes to swap out the old drives with the new ones. They work perfectly, on all my media.
I suppose $70 for two new drives is more than worth the frustration of trying to resolve this problem by other means. I hope my experience can help others with this same issue.

Calibrate laser power

I have been burning cd's in the past with no issues. Now all of a sudden I am getting a "The attempt to burn a disc failed. The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media". I have tried two different brands of blank CD's and get the same error. I have seen several other comments about this error though no one has responded that their problem went away or if in fact they had a hardware issue.
So my question is this---if I try a laser cleaner what brand or version is the right one to use? I looked at one today that said must take care with slot loading......
What are the suggestions before I take it in?.....
Thanks
Michael

The calibration error is usually an indication of a failed drive. You could try cleaning it with a cleaning disc designed to work with a slot loading drive, but its quite likely the drive has simply failed.

Calibrate the laser power

Hi All
When i go to burn a CD or DVD I get the following message:
'The attempt to burn a disc failed. The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media.'
I'm using an 17" iMac 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 1 GB 677 MHz DDR2 SDRAM running OSX 10.4.11
Can any body please tell me why I'm getting this problem. I have used 3 makes of CD / DVD
Regards
Lee Harris

When you start the burn, the drive's laser moves to a special spot on the CD or DVD and reads a code that is on every CD which indicates the maximum burn speed of the media. It then performs a sample burn to determine the power level required to burn the disc. There's a small variation for each disc. If the drive cannot perform this sample burn successfully, it gives you this error.
The error generally means one of two things: bad media or a bad drive. Hearing that it might be the media, lots of people complain that the media worked just fine on their PC. And it might have. Each drive seems to have its own preferences and the drives put into notebooks tend to be more picky than the drives used in desktops. Also, media can go bad - it should be kept in a cool, dry, smoke free environment.

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