[PB] Test

at leX zifnab at mac.com
Wed Jun 29 03:40:54 PDT 2005


Hi Jean-Paul

Usually the OS gives you the message that the drive is not supported 
when you have put in a 3rd party CD/DVD drive that did not come with 
your mac. Check with your friend to see if he upgraded the drive in 
your powerbook. That would be the most likely reason.

Alex

On 29 Jun 2005, at 11:31, Jean-Paul Thuot wrote:

> I recently bought my FW800 1Ghz PB from a friend of mine who was going
> off to China (I'm living in Taiwan right now).  It was an upgrade from
> a 600mhz iBook that I had packed around for a year or more.
>
> I am loving the 15" screen, the increased snappiness and the
> oh-so-cool metal look of the Al.  It's heavier than the iBook, but I
> really don't mind.
>
> I sometimes have trouble with burning CDs on the combo drive.  If I
> try to burn a CD from Roxio or iTunes I don't have a trouble, but if I
> just throw a blank CD in I often get "drive not supported" message.
> This is in Tiger 10.4.1
>
> Does this happen to anyone else?
>
> Jean-Paul
>
> (who's hoping this might kickstart something on this list.)



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