[G4] Recommendation for SuperDrive replacement?

[Al Poulin]

How do audio CDs play?  Can you startup/boot from a CD-ROM?

Try cleaning first.  That sometimes works well.

Al Poulin
Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God, 
proactive self-defense is for the rest of us.

On Dec 26, 2004, at 11:03 PM, joshua hough wrote:

> I have a SuperDrive in my G4 MDD dual 1.25 (purchased January 2003 from
> Apple).  The drive is from Hitachi and has buffer underrun prevention.
> Recently I cannot burn a single clean CD or DVD.  I have tested many 
> of my
> iTunes CDs in a variety of players and they either don't play, or quit
> halfway through.  I burn DVDs in Roxio Toast.  These always fail 
> partway
> through Toast's post-burn verification step.  They play in a home DVD
> player, but with frequent interruptions of picture scrambling.
>
> Here is the drive info from System Profiler:
> Device Revision:  D02E
> Product:  DVD-RW GCA-4020B
> Vendor:  HL-DT-ST (Hitachi)
>
> I have tried several media brands and speeds, both name-brand and 
> otherwise.
> There is no apparent difference.  I have tried every speed setting 
> from 1x
> to max.  OS is 10.2.8.  iTunes and Roxio are up-to-date.  RAM tests 
> okay.
> No other apps are running while burning is in progress.
>
> Does the drive need to be cleaned or replaced?  If so, what is the best
> replacement right now?  Internal only, please.  I have AppleCare, but 
> would
> rather buy a newer, better drive than ship the whole G4 away to Apple.