ok I have reinstalled the 10.3.6 and it has solved the pb. strange... well thanks to all of u for your help. very best regards, Fred Le 7 nov. 04, à 23:27, eiffel at mac.com a écrit : > > I have done all this but unfortunately it does not work. > I have also tried to boot on an hold 10.3.2 partition and here my CD > is seen on the desktop and in toast !... > > grrrrrrrrrrr > > Le 7 nov. 04, à 22:53, cubelover at mac.com a écrit : > >> try rebooting in os 9 and then insert the cd. if it sees it then, >> it's not a hardware issue but an os x issue. i had the same issue >> recently in someone's emac. the cd didn't show up in os x, showed up >> in os 9, and then rebooting back in os x resolved the issue. not >> sure what happened but it seemed to fix it.