unable to burn CD

It's possible that you don't have a burner in your iBook. Do the following:
  1. Go to the Apple menu at the top left and select "About This Mac"
  2. When the "About This Mac" windows pops up, click on the "More Info..." button (this will bring up the System Profiler)
  3. Once in System Profiler, highlight the "ATA" section and see what is listed as the optical drive. If it says that you have a CD-ROM or just a DVD-ROM, then you don't have any burning capabilities.

Let us know what you find.
 
Thanks for the advice,I have just pasted the information .Looks like i should be able to write -R,-RW CDs.Advance thanks for your help.

MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8124:

Firmware Revision: DB0D
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw
Media: No
 
Depending on the version of your OS, it will ask about burning differently, but you should be able to change how it asks in System Preferences. Also, note that you can burn CD-R CD-RW, not CD+R or CD+RW
 
eric2006 said:
Depending on the version of your OS, it will ask about burning differently, but you should be able to change how it asks in System Preferences. Also, note that you can burn CD-R CD-RW, not CD+R or CD+RW
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I've never seen CD+R/+RW in my life. The only time I've seen the "+" sign is with DVD+R/+RW writers. Most DVD burners can support both formats (+ and -).
 
If there were such thing as a CD+R, you wouldn't be able to burn to it. :)

Some early Superdrives only supported DVD-R

It'd be helpful to know what part of the burning process is causing trouble.
 
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