Weird imac glitch

[ffutures]

I replaced the DVD drive - it now read and plays CDs, but won't access DVDs. My Tiger and Leopard disks are, of course, DVDs. This is just a bit baffling...

Anyone got any bright ideas, other than trying yet another DVD drive? Are there any arcane settings I should be looking at?

Update - pulled the drive, replaced it with the newest drive from my duplicator, that works fine. Back to CEX with the one I bought yesterday, I suppose... Now I need to back up some files from the hard drive that look interesting... ok, yes, they're games, but what the hell... and then reformat it and shove on Leopard.

Comments

[mrs-norris-mous.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it's a dvd drive and not a cd drive ?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's a DVD drive - DVD+- R, RW, DL

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Make that a faulty DVD - I put in another and it works without problems. A little annoying, but I can get a refund.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Will this machine do Target Disk Mode? (That is, pretending to be a disk drive peripheral to another Mac.) Maybe you could install OS X that way.

Check Low End Mac's specs for that particular model.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I know about that but I need to sort the drive anyway, might as well do that first.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Drive now sorted - the replacement disk was also faulty. VERY annoying!