CD drive acting up

[Mike Adams]

Today, while trying to burn a disc with Toast, I kept getting errors messages. Now, any disc I insert fails to appear on the desktop and I get a message that it cannot be read. Finally, ejecting the disk then takes up to 3 minutes before it pops out of the machine.

G5 running 10.4.10

Does this sound like a hardware failure?

 

[aicul]

I've seen that. The drive is good for a repair. In my case it was dirt. Probably a replacement is better.

If you are the adventurous/curious type, you can do this yourself, some sites actually provide step by step instructions to follow.