SONY DVD RW DW-U10A Not Recognizing Leopard Install Disc

I have a PowerMAC G5 with a:
SONY DVD RW DW-U10A (Firmware A43h)
and it keeps kicking out the Leopard install DVD and wont mount it.
Any suggestions?

mltechz wrote:
I have a PowerMAC G5 with a:
SONY DVD RW DW-U10A (Firmware A43h)
and it keeps kicking out the Leopard install DVD and wont mount it.
Any suggestions?
Welcome to the Apple boards:
The drive may need a firmware update.
It's also possible that the drive is no longer working properly.
Does the drive eject only the Leopard DVD or any other movie DVD for example?
What about CDs?
You might also clean the lens on the optical drive. RadioShack sells several CD/DVD lens cleaners.
Also, check in the system profiler under disk burning for any possible information about reading DVDs.
Remember that the Leopard DVD is a dual-layer DVD. Your drive should be able to read it, but the DL reading part is not the same as the normal reading part. I think it uses a different laser at the minimum.

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