G4 OS 10.4.10 CD reader problem

Thom Mckeown · #1 May 18th, 2008, 08:00 AM

May I ask if you've any ideas on how to resolve this problem please? On my G4 (running OSX.4.10) when I insert data CDs it seems to accept them and the image appears on the desktop and I can easily access the data therein. But when I insert any commercially recorded music CDs it ejects them. I've tried several pre-recorded CDs and they've pretty much all been ejected, with one exception from a double-CD set. It read Disc 1 but rejected Disc 2! (The same applies with DVDs). Obviously I've gone into System Preferences/Hardware/CDs & DVDs although when I click on iTunes for when I'm inserting a music CD it invariably jumps back to 'ignore' - could this be part of the problem and if so how do I ensure it will remain with displaying iTunes at this section? This is a really big problem as I want to increase my iTunes library to transfer more music to my 160gb iPod. Please help if you've any suggestions! Many thanks.

Thom Mckeown

Satcomer · #2 May 18th, 2008, 06:49 PM

G4? First blow the dust out of the drive with compressed air. Then buy one of those cheap CD/DVD cleaning disks. This might help.

DeltaMac · #3 May 18th, 2008, 07:10 PM

Cleaning might help. Have you tried creating a new user account, just to test this? If you are logged into another account, and audio CDs are still ejected, then likely your CD drive is bad. Audio read is a separate hardware function from data reads. One function can work, and another fail. The multi-disk set that partially works might have one disk that is a hybrid disk, with some data files. That may be why it works. If you need commercial audio CDs to read, the only fix is replacing the drive.