Solved superdrive problem

Some months back, I posted some discussion about iMac superdrives. Mine wouldn't burn properly (or so I thought) and then wouldn't read properly. As it transpired, upgrading the RAM from 256 to 768mb cured the playback. DVD's, where the playback appeared jilted (stop and start) now read okay. I can only assume there was not enough memory to buffer the content of the DVD to play.
On the Superdrive, eventually it wouldn't even read CD's. So my local tech <metek.com.au> fitted a new Pioneer 16x and downloaded <patchburn.de> and voila. It burns and reads DVD's like new.
One point, it will read at 16x but only burn at 1x. This is due to the hardware in the iMac. The Patchburn site has more details.
The Pioneer drive (DVD-RW DVR-110D) cost a shade over A$100.00 whereas the Apple replacement was a down payment for a house. So for anyone suffering from Superdrive problems, accept the fact they don't read forever and fit a new one.
Another thing Rik <macmate.com.au> said was the dust inside the machine builds up on one side of an iMac and is a poor environment for optical drives My computer is on everyday and from now-on-in I'II give it an annual clean. Hope this helps someone, James

That may help, I hope! Will go tomorrow to get different media. But the wierd thing is in a 50 spindle of memorex 16x dvd-r's i've gone through (burned) half the spindle!!! a week and a half ago! bought some "new" sony 1x-16x "ACCUCORE" discs and havent got one burned in either Toast 7 or 8! or using a burn folder or disk utility.
Toast will start to prepare the burn, then it gives me a message that it couldnt complete the burn.
The odd thing is in all occurances is the drive doesnt even start to spin-up! Took it to my local MacMall Thursday and they replaced the drive and was able to burn 1 data disk on 1 dvd+r media (a 500k file) on a disk that was already kinda beat up. No -r though. A new error message came up: Mac os error. They claim it's a software problem with osx!
I have 55 days of applecare left and intend to let them replace the drive again and reload fresh tiger.
I did an archive/reinstall of Tiger today and nothing, again! (so i'm currently at 10.4.6 - will hold off on the 10.4.9 updates for now)
Will head out and get media in the morning and see what's up, if nothing i'm off to MacMall!!!
oh here's my sys specs for the sony drive:
SONY DVD RW DW-U21A:
Firmware Revision: AADB
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: No
its in a dual 2g G5 with 1g ram, 160g internal, 600g and 250g ext lacie triple xtreme drives on the fw800 port and a 45g vst fw drive plugged into the front fw port.
we'll see mañana………………
Craig V Butler

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