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stejskals - Jul 18, 2005 - 10:08 pm

I put a blank dvd-r into my imac and it does not recognize it it tries to read it and just ejects it.

DeltaMac - Jul 18, 2005 - 10:13 pm

Does your iMac have a SuperDrive?
If so, has it worked before?
- Dale

stejskals - Jul 18, 2005 - 10:23 pm

I believe so i have burned pictures and made movies and watched movies but not burned them.

DeltaMac - Jul 18, 2005 - 10:36 pm

You should find out for sure - Click on the Apple menu, and choose About This Mac. Click on the More Info button. System Profiler will open. Click on ATA or IDE tab. You should see 2 devices. One is your hard drive, the other is the CD/DVD, This should show that it is a Matshita or Pioneer or Sony or SomethingElse DVD-R/RW, or DVD/CD-RW or ?

What do you see here? - put as much detail as you want.
Are you sure you have never burned a DVD-R?

- Dale

stejskals - Jul 18, 2005 - 10:47 pm

I have never burned a dvd-r . My computer shows on devices a CD-RW/DVD-R.

DeltaMac - Jul 19, 2005 - 7:27 am

Good - Check the label on the disk you are trying - is it a DVD+R, or a DVD-R? This can make a difference if your Mac is as more than a year old.

- Dale

stejskals - Jul 19, 2005 - 9:22 am

dvd+r

DeltaMac - Jul 19, 2005 - 12:28 pm

Try a DVD-R
Apple has only recently supported DVD+R in all their new systems. Prior to about a year ago, only DVD-R was supported natively on all systems.

- Dale

stejskals - Jul 19, 2005 - 10:17 pm

I have a dvd-r and when i put it in nothing appears on my desktop, and the computer says it is a format or some such that my imac does not recognize.

stejskals - Jul 20, 2005 - 7:35 pm

have a dvd-r and when i put it in nothing appears on my desktop, and the computer says it is a format or some such that my imac does not recognize.

stejskals - Jul 20, 2005 - 7:36 pm

pioneer 105

jjividen - Jul 22, 2005 - 3:01 am

if I read your description correctly, your drive does not burn DVDs. It is listed as a Read only (R), not Read Write (RW).

stejskals - Jul 22, 2005 - 6:35 pm

I was told this 17' imac burns dvd's why would it say it has a CD-RW/DVD-R if it did not burn dvd's?

stejskals - Jul 22, 2005 - 6:38 pm

I was told this 17' imac burns dvd's why would it say it has a CD-RW/DVD-R if it did not burn dvd's? It also says under devises that disc burning is fully supported.

jjividen - Jul 23, 2005 - 12:17 am

ATA Bus:

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-117D:

Model: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-117D

This is the ATA Bus information on my G5 and as you can see, the DVE-RW is the description for a read/write dvd burner. Your unit, if it does not show this, will burn CD's but not DVDs. Can you find the ATA Bus info and send it to me so I can be sure this is the problem? Thanks.