[iBook] Matshita disappeared

[Clark Martin]

At 9:08 AM -0500 12/17/05, Tony Gamble wrote:
>I was watching a burned DVD last evening while performing a couple 
>of other light tasks (transfering files via firewire), when suddenly 
>the image froze and I had to force quit DVD player app.  I then 
>discovered that I could not eject the disc, so I restarted... only 
>to discover that I still could not eject the disc.  I tried 
>everything I could think of: eject from Disk Utility, from Terminal, 
>from Open Firmware, holding trackpad click on boot... even went as 
>far as resetting PRAM, NVRAM and PMU.  All the while, the drive 
>wouldn't even show up in the System Profiler, although on every 
>restart I can hear it spin up and otherwise physically function.
>
>Drive is a Matshita in an iBook G4/1.42Ghz running 10.4.3.
>
>Anybody trip over this problem before?  Fortunately, I'm still under warranty.

Do a shutdown then start up.  Odds are the power manager has turned 
off the drive and "forgotten" about it.
-- 
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting

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