[iBook] Matshita disappeared

[Brian Olesky]

On 12/17/05 6:08 AM, "Tony Gamble" <tgamble180 at rogers.com> 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.
> 
> Tony
> 
Just curious, but if you're still under warranty why don't you simply pick
up the phone and call Apple?