6 December 2006
Superdrive Crapped Out
Well, lately I’ve been getting error messages trying to burn CD’s from iTunes and even in my Disk Utility. “Failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media.” and the like. Now I admit my Powermac isn’t a spring chicken anymore but I have certainly not abused her. So this evening I took the drive assembly out and took the superdrive apart, I mean really apart. Grabbed the 91% Alcohol solvent from a local drugstore and began hand cleaning the laser. This proved to work, sort of. I was able to burn an album in iTunes but wasn’t able to get the Ubuntu Linux dist iso to burn (for a Linux project to toss on Dexter*). I suppose I will have to try to snag another drive or resort to an external solution, I wonder how much those are going for now, it’s gotta do the DVD’s too, maybe Dual Layer is the way to go this time, Tiger supports it!
*Dexter is my Blue & White Yosemite G3
I did end up slapping in a Memorex Dual-Layer DVD-RW, this thing rocks!
