Superdrive stopped burning DVD no longer recognized by computer

I am using an i Book G4. I have been consistently burning DVD's on the superdrive for several days. Today in iDVD it said there was no superdrive on the computer. I can however play DVD's on the drive. Is this a soft ware or hard ware problem? I don't know what else to check. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

I assume what you were asking was what program I was using to burn the DVD. I was using iDVD and that is the program that first told me my machine did not have a burner. I use the disk image to actually burn the DVD. I have found it much more stable than trying to burn from iDVD no matter which of the 3 Mac computers I use. Thanks for you input. I was hoping there was a way to see if there was a software corruption causing the burn DVD to disconnect. I appreciate your interest.

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DVDs no longer recognized

Hey all,
After downloading the last lot of updates for my eMac, I have had problems with the eject button on the keyboard. It works, except you have to hold it down longer. I've spoken to a couple other people who had similar issues. And just this week, my super drive no longer recognizes DVD discs. It keeps coming up with a message that the disc inserted is not readable on this computer, and all you can do is eject it. At first I thought it might need a re-boot, but found it's also happening with my external burner. Blank DVD discs seem to be read ok (Toast opens up normally), as are CDs both blank and music ones (iTunes opens). I've tried inserting around 6 different discs in both drives, and it keeps coming up with the same message. And I've also run the software restore discs to no avail.
Does anyone out there have any kind of help before I bring it into a service place?
Much appreciated,
Steve

scatz72,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
The small increase in the time one must hold the eject key down before the optical drawer opens is a known feature of the 10.4.9 update. Apparently some fairly large number of users had complained about the drawer opening unintentionally as their fingers brushed adjacent keys. If you feel strongly enough about it being undesirable, use the Apple - Feedback website to let the developers know.
You mention Toast and an external drive. Does Toast recognize blank DVD-R discs in the external drive as readable, or does it launch and then reject the disc? If I understand correctly, the problem is with DVD-R discs on the internal Superdrive. Can you confirm that the Superdrive sucessfully read DVD-R discs before" Does System Profiler under the Hardware> Disc Burning section recognize the internal drive as being able to handle -R and -RW media?
Double-check that the blank DVDs are -R/-RW and not R/RW.
Also check if the Superdrive Firmware Update applies to your eMac.

Superdrive stopped reading DVDs - Can't even mount image

About a month ago my Superdrive quit reading DVDs. It burns then just fine from iDVD, and other data, but will not read them, or any other type of DVD media/movies anymore. (even ones it just made) I can't figure it out. It reads CDs and imports data from CDs but not DVDs. So, if anyone can help me, it surely would be hugely appreciated.

Just for the fun of it and to observe the same thing from a different approach you may go to System Preferences . Once there select "Startup Disk" and you will find a "Target Disk Mode" button . Same thing but it keeps it that way as your Startup Disk and likely Target Disk as well . I imagine you will need to do an "Option" restart to choose other than a Target Disk from that selection . Option restart will present a screen which offers you which network or Disk you wish to use as a startup .
I have no idea what the problem is with the Mac OSX DVD software but the VLC free software just works and it has improved quite a bit these last few years . The System Preference's Sharing selection also offers a DVD or CD shared solution which hasn't worked for me yet . Good Luck to us !

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My mac mini is not burning DVD's right. I put in a 500GB harddrive a few months back and the SATA cables are attached correct. I can read DVD's but writing DVD's doesn't work. The process finishes but when after I eject the disc I can see that nothing is burning in the inner most part of the disc. When I put the disc back in the computer thinks the disc hasn't been burned and asks if it shuld be open in finder like a blank disc. I know a cd/dvd should burn from the center and spiral outward as it writes more data but it seems the disc is offset when it writes its first data, leaving the inner most part of the disc blank. Maybe I should reformat the OS and start from scratch to see if that helps. Any other ideas?

Strange these Memorex DVD's worked flawlessly a couple of times then I started getting these srange burns. I think I'm going to blitz this install I'm backing up with time machine now so I'll see what happens. Is there anyway to reapply an EFI update to make sure nothing is corrupt? I did notice what looked like brownish black burns on the logicboard when I opened it up to put the new harddrive in. They were on the long solder traces where they test the logic board by the the logic boards sata connections. I keep the system on 24/7 but don't really play any 3d or do anything that is too processor intense. Another thing is the superdriver seems to favor the left side when a DVD is initially inserted and ejected but moves to the conter when pressed all the way in I can't remember that being normal.

Superdrive only burns dvd at 2x

I just bought a 12" powerbook with a superdrive and it says that it's supposed to burn DVD's at 8x. I put in a 16x and it said the max it could do was 2x so then I put in an 8x and it still won't write faster than 2x. Is the drive in the powerbook extremely picky about which types of DVD-R's to use or is there different issue here?

Do you have the option to burn at higher than 2x and it just won't burn successfully? I was burning at 4x (I have a model from last year) before upgrading to Tiger, and when I try to use media from the same spindle after the upgrade, I didn't have an option to try to burn at faster than 2x. Toast seems to burn at faster than 2x, but I like apple's disk burner better and would rather use that. I don't see how the drive could identify the media and lower it's speed based on that. If that's what it's trying to do, I don't really consider it a feature. I'll try to burn at the higher speed, and if it fails, I'll burn slower, or try different media. I don't need the computer to try to prevent me from burning a coaster when the media is as cheap as it is. sigh

Frozen ipod that is no longer recognized by computer

Help! My I-pod nano is frozen. It has been frozen before, so I did what Apple.com said to do. It is still frozen! So I decided to plug it in to the computer to charge .. and the I-pod is no longer recognized by my computer!
I've tried a million times to unfreeze it, doing what Apple said, but nothing is working! And why is Itunes not recognizing my I-pod?

Hi caitt,
I don't know if "what Apple said to do" means that you tried the 5 R's, but that's a good start:
The 5 R's
From there, try this:
iPod missing in "My Computer" or in iTunes on Windows
And this...
iPod won't turn on
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maz

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I just purchased my shuffle yesterday, connected it to my MAC, charged it (the light turned green), downloaded podcasts from I Tunes and everything seemed fine. I had to leave for a couple of hours and left the Shuffle in the docking station. I came back and the light has been blinking orange ever since (over 24 hours) and the Shuffle is no longer on my computer or recognized as a Device in I Tunes. I tried all the 5 "r's". Any other suggestions - other than taking it back to the store. I would think the product would have a longer life than 36 hours.

I had the blinking orange light happen to my shuffle today when I connected to my XP machine which holds my iTunes.
I tried uninstalling the device, changing the drive letter, changing the USB port it was connected to, the apple reset tool (garbage...). Nothing could get it to connect, I kept getting the message that the iPod was corrupted.
Eventually I took it to my Apple, plugged it in, got it recognized no problem, synced and erased to that iTunes library then did the factory restore.
Took it back to the PC, and was able to re-sync and rebuild the library on the shuffle from there.
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I have an ipod nano (1st gen) with a frozen screen that is no longer recognized by any computer. I had just barely downloaded a new audio book onto it before ejecting from itunes and trying to play it when it froze. Since then I have tried updating my itunes, plugging it into a second computer, and turning it off by holding the pause button, but nothing seems to work. Suggestions? Or, has it just reached the end of its lifespan?

Hi caitt,
I don't know if "what Apple said to do" means that you tried the 5 R's, but that's a good start:
The 5 R's
From there, try this:
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maz

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Since I upgraded to SL- I've started having problems with my Optical drive (I think).
Previously created older movies burned on DVD-Rs (G5 PPC) when inserted in my iMAC are not recognized as DVDs.
Instead I get a message that I've inserted a blank CD (not DVD) in the machine.
These movies used to play just fine on my iMAc and still do on stand-alone players.
My Mac further indicates that these are blank CDs -and can be re-burned (which should be impossible).
Also, if I insert an older DVD with a PAPER label, the optical drive spins down and stops dead.
Non-paper label disks spin normally.
Am I looking at a failing optical player-- failed software, or both?
any help appreciated.

"My Mac further indicates that these are blank CDs -and can be re-burned"
You cannot "reburn" DVD -Rs.
"Also, if I insert an older DVD with a PAPER label"
As a precaution, never insert a DVD or CD that has a paper label. The drive heat can sometimes melt the glue leaving little pieces of paper inside the slot drive during ejections, burning, etc. Reason why I hate slot drives. Wish Apple bring back the tray drives.
If I were you, I would clean my drive "several" times w/a drive cleaner, repair permissions and restart the computer after each burning session.
If little pieces of paper are stuck inside the drive, you will have no alternative but to take your computer to a repair shop for removal & cleaning.

Superdrive not burning DVD's

Well I tried to burn a DVD on my iMac(Intel) and I use iDVD all the time on my MacBook, but this is the first time that I have used it on my iMac(Intel) and it read a message "Your Macintosh does not have the supported Superdrive" and said that I can't burn a DVD. So I checked what kind of DVD Drive I had via "About This Mac", and it showed me I had the capability and that it was a superdrive not a combo drive. Also I thought all iMac's come standard with DVD burning. Is there something wrong with my Superdrive, or iDVD?????

What are you calling an iDVD? Is it a disk you formerly burned with iDVD? Is it just a DVD-R or DVD+R you are trying to burn something on? Starting July 20, 2011 Apple stopped including iDVD on Macs, and sold it separately as part of iLife '11 through the non-App Store. Is that what you are missing and expecting to see come up when you enter a blank DVD? Or are you missing iDVD because you might have an older version of it that used to run in Rosetta, and now doesn't because you are running 10.7 or later? Or did you insert blank DVD and the Finder didn't know what to do with it?

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Though I have been a Mac user since I started using computers, I would consider myself a "newbie" as far as using the various packages available on OSX 10.3.9 Panther, specifically iPhoto and idvd as well as issues regarding upgrading and expanding my current computer.
Anyway, my main question is this...I was doing a project in imovie and wanted to burn it to a DVD only to discover a little too late that my computer, in fact, had NO INTERNAL SUPERDRIVE! I just assumed my computer had the capability but found out is was only CD-RW/DVD-ROM.
Well, this lead to a lot of research on my part trying to figure out how to get a superdrive. It seems like the best (easiest?) option is to get an external DVD burner...but I don't know which is the best one, if I would need firewire cables or "USB" (if that is even correct) to hook it up and even if a "superdrive" is the same thing as a hard drive!
Also, I have tried to follow the threads on this site about various apple topics and discussions and am having a tough time deciphering much of the "lingo". Dual Layer Disc? DVD+R vs. DVD-R and what drive and/or media works with what?? ATA? SATA PCI? RAID? RAPTOR? Is there a dictionary for all this?
I really want to learn and finish this slideshow project I have started using iphoto 4.0.3 and imovie 4.0.1 but am at a confusing brick wall. ANY and ALL help is greatly appreciated.
Sorry to post such a long message, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. : (
Power Mac G4 1.25 GHz (Dual) [Mirrored Drive Door] Mac OS X (10.3.9) Current computer drive is dual CD-RW/DVD-ROM and NO SUPERDRIVE!!!

Like the previous poster I'd be tempted to get an internal DVD burner.
It's almost certainly the cheapest solution, as you can just buy the bare drive and aren't paying for an external case, cables, bundled software (which tends to be Windows only) etc, none of which you actually need.
It's almost certainly the most compatible solution as well, in terms of being able to burn CDs and DVDs from the Finder and iApps such as iTunes and iDVD.
You could either replace your existing CD-RW/DVD-ROM or add it as a second drive. Instructions for replacing the optical drive (CD/DVD) can be found here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=26259
Removing the old drive is just a case of undoing a few screws and unplugging two cables. Installation of the new drive is simply the reverse process. The only thing to check is that the jumpers are set correctly on the back of the new drive. This just involves moving a small jumper 'block' to the appropriate pair of pins.
The Pioneer DVR-110D would be a popular choice as it supports both competing formats (DVD-RW and DVD+RW) and also dual layer discs. The only slight complication is that being new on the market, I don't believe it's fully supported by OS X 10.4 yet (although this could change with 10.4.4).
However, if you're using 10.3 (or 10.4) you can use PatchBurn:
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Do I need an Apple Superdrive to burn DvDs on my Macbook Air?

I have tried numerous Internet applications and none of them have worked. I have an ASUS export drive but whenever I try to burn, it just burns the data and not the actual movie.

To add to the post above. It is not the drive you are using, any external dvd drive will work on any computer. As above you need a special program to burn movies to a dvd disc so they can be played in a dvd player.
Oh I meant any dvd drive other than a apple superdrive. Apple has restricted those to only work on certain mac computers, the airs models being one of them. But any other brand will work fine on any computer.

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Hi, BH. Thanks for your response.
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