{"id":1000978,"date":"2008-01-15T11:07:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T16:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2008\/01\/15\/my-mac-hates-dvds\/"},"modified":"2008-03-09T21:24:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T02:24:01","slug":"my-mac-hates-dvds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2008\/01\/15\/my-mac-hates-dvds\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mac Spits Out DVDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently my PowerMac G5 tower running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger began ejecting all DVD discs. It will accept CDs, but it immediately ejects every DVD I insert: blank or preformatted, video or computer. Booting up off an older operating system on a different partition didn&#8217;t change this. It feels like a hardware problem, though I&#8217;m not 100% sure of that yet. Any suggestions? (For obvious reasons, running tools that are themselves provided on DVD is not an option.)<\/p>\n<h3>Update<\/h3>\n<p>It does indeed seem to be a hardware problem. I went down to the Apple Store at Fashion Island and picked up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2006\/10\/28\/upgrading-the-dvd-burner\/\">Lacie external DVD burner<\/a>, which, so far, seems to be working fine. Reinstalling the operating system and all data, by contrast, had no effect on the internal drive. One of these days I should probably just swap out the internal drive, but right now I can&#8217;t really be bothered, especially since the recent move and frequent travel have inspired me to switch to my Macbook as my primary machine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently my PowerMac G5 tower running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger began ejecting all DVD discs. It will accept CDs, but it immediately ejects every DVD I insert: blank or preformatted, video or computer. Booting up off an older operating system on a different partition didn&#8217;t change this. It feels like a hardware problem, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}