[P1] Problems with combo drive in my iBook

[J Patrick Draine]

On Dec 29, 2003, at 2:55 PM, Mark Kippert wrote:

> I've been having trouble with the combo drive (CDRW/DVD) in my 500MHz 
> iBook.
> In the last 6 months it has failed to mount CDs or DVDs, but the 
> problem is
> intermittent
<snip>
>
> The new issue is that it is taking at least as long to rip an audio CD 
> as
> would to play it. Maybe longer. It seems like I recall being able to 
> rip a
> one hour CD in about one quarter that amount of time.

Is your HD rather full? Have you repaired permissions, and perhaps run 
DiskWarrior to see if there's any software issues that might be the 
problem?

If you've taken such measures, as Jack wrote, go ahead and be insistent 
with AppleCare.

Patrick