[G4] G4 not recognizing CDs

[David Crandon]

Dude! You should have posted before you went through the major hassle 
of reinstalling your system software!

Simple check the "CD's and DVD's" preference pane in your System 
Preferences.

Good luck,

David


On Sunday, September 14, 2003, at 11:21  AM, Doug McNutt wrote:

> At 10:18 -0700 9/14/03, AJ wrote:
>> I have a G4 dual 533.
>> My G4 has stopped recognizing CDs and DVDs.
>> The profiler and toast still see my CD drive, but when I insert a 
>> disk it
>> does not appear on the desktop or in any programs.
>
> Back in system 8/9 days I had a problem with Toast installing its own 
> CD driver which made it impossible to read anything on the built-in CD 
> read only drive. The writer was on the external SCSI bus of an 8500.
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