Solution to all those flaky drives!!!

After testing many MacBook Pros and finding many problems with the optical drives... we have found whats causing OUR problems...
the NON apple ram is causing all the problems. some crucial some non crucial... we removed it all and the optical drives work perfectly on all of them!

Just got my MacBook Pro back, and supposedly the superdrive was replaced. However, it still can't read the commercial music CD that it had problems with before -- gets stuck at exactly the same place. (Other computers have no trouble with this CD). I think I'll wait and see if this subpar drive performance turns out to be a real pain or not. Also, maybe in 6 months Apple will have worked out the problems with the superdrive.
MacBook Pro, Mac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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Just that one playlist goes missing and no other content? No idea. But it is clear you ought to have a backup so you can restore the database should it happen again.
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Hi,
One of my client is using MBAM 2.5 in his environment and all the clients are running on Windows 7 ENT SP1.
Once the user logging to his encrypted PC it will only unlock the operating system drive. User has to go to my computer and he has to unlock the second drive. My client is looking for a solution to unlock both the drives from the windows startup.
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