[X4U] DVD-ROM not found.

[Bob Aldridge]

I went ahead and installed the DEAD DVD-ROM drive back into the iMac G4 and
everything works as expected, so for some reason for an external DVD-ROM
CD-RW to work, it needs to have the old internal drive installed, weather it
works or not I guess. Must be a BUS issue or something.


On 10/17/08 9:19 PM, "Bob Aldridge" <aldridgebob63 at knology.net> wrote:

> Need some help with this one:
> 
> My sister-in-law has an iMac G4 1.25Ghz 17² LCD USB 2.0 with 10.4.11.
> 
> The internal DVD-ROM CD-RW died awhile back so she purchased a Sony external
> DVD-ROM CD-RW USB 2.0 to take its place.
> 
> Everything was working fine.
> 
> Recently, she had some bad sectors on her HD (5 yrs old anyhow), so I
> purchased her a new HD, installed it and while I had the case open, I removed
> the broken internal DVD-ROM CD-RW. Installed a fresh 10.4.11
> 
> System profiler can see the USB Sony DVD-ROM CD-RW, but when a disk is
> installed, or when I open Apple DVD player, it says a disk drive cannot be
> found.
> 
> The DVD can be seen on the desktop.
> 
> System prefs is configured to open Apple DVD player when a DVD is inserted.
> 
> I hooked the new Sony drive to my setup (iMac G5 2.0) and the drive works fine
> when I put in a DVD.
> 
> Would removing the old broken DVD-ROM drive from the G4 cause the new external
> Sony not to work??
> 
> Any suggestion? I checked Sony¹s site and there is no d/l¹s for the drive.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Bob Aldridge
> Huntsville, AL
> 
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