[CUBE] Off Topic

[atoa at krak.net]

Lots of questions.

1) Are you in fact burning on the Cube, either externally or internally?
If externally, what brand of burner? If externally, do both drives on the
Cube see the disks? If internally, have you tried attaching an external
drive to the Cube for testing purposes?
2) Have you tried loading one of your "data" disks in a third machine,
either Mac or other?
3) What exactly do you mean by "data" disk? What settings are you using? I
ask because many "factory" cds are simply "data" disks, too. No auto-run,
no bootable. If they run, why not yours?
4) Does this occur with different media brands?
5) Have you tried burning a "data" disk with OSX alone? Maybe Toast is the
problem, or at least your installations of it.
6) When you say that the CD is not even recognized by the iMac, I assume
you mean that it doesn't appear on the Desktop, or the Finder window
panel. If that's the case, does it show up as there in the System Profiler
(unlikely) or when issuing the df command in the terminal?
7) I'm not sure this will work, but it may be worth a try: Install Toast
on the iMac, and see what shows up under Recorder-Disk Info. If nothing
else, if that works, it is a handy way to eject the non-recognized disk.
8) Have you tried mounting a "data" disk burned by a different burner,
either Mac or other?
9) Are you burning cd-r or cd-rw? Single or multi-session? If you haven't
tried a single session cd-r only, try that. I'm hard pressed to see why it
would matter, but have you tried more than one burn speed?
10) Is there anything that you changed (if you can remember) on the iMac
shortly before it stopped seeing your disks? Hardware or software changes?
Does the iMac only refuse to see disks recently burned- that is, does it
now refuse to see disks that it used to see before it started having the
problem?

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Bob Hasselbrink wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Data CD's that I have burned will work fine in my Cube running 10.2.8,
> as
> will all others.
>
> The same CD (data) is not even recognized in my old iMac/333 running
> 10.3.3.
> I do not believe that the OS is an issue, as the iMac started this
> behavior
> even when running 8.6 and I was hoping the upgrade would resolve this
> issue.
> It will play self-burned audio and "factory" CD's.
> I know that this is not really a Cube issue and will understand your
> "shunning" of me.
> I was just hoping that someone else may have experienced this.
> I have used both Toast "lite" and Titanium 5 with the same results.
> Thanks
> Be kind
> Bob
>
>
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