On Sep 28, 2007, at 5:43 PM, John Erdman wrote: > Kirk - Thought you'd like to know. > > Just got off the phone with Apple Care. All fixed. Woo-hoo, I did > not have a hardware problem > > They had me start up from the original install disk. Then repair > the HD and Repair Permissions. > Then restarted from the my system HD, and had me toss both the > caches in my main Library as well as the caches in my Home Library. > > After restart: everything is hunky dory. He said that I had a > corrupted preference file. > > The System profiler again senses the Pioneer drive both under ATA > and Disc Burning. > And I can write an audio CD from iTunes and a data CD from Finder. > > I'm a happy camper again. Interesting that it was that simple (not to find, but to fix). Best, Kirk Author of: The Mac OS X Command Line: Unix Under the Hood http://www.mcelhearn.com/unix.html - - - - - - Read my blog: Kirkville -- http://www.mcelhearn.com Musings, Opinion and Miscellanea, on Macs, iPods and more