Thanks for your input Fred and that is the route I will go. It is actually my Daughter's ibook and she just got back from the genius bar and they wanted $300.00 to send it in so I will just get her an external unit. What brand unit did you buy? Don www.distelphoto.com On Dec 24, 2005, at 5:49 PM, Fred Stevens K2FRD wrote: > Had the same problem with my 14" G3 900 (new Aug 03; not the combo > drive). It didn't do it all the time, but kept doing it more and > more over a period of maybe six months. It would read a CD and DVD > OK. Fiddled with it, downloaded and installed new burn software, no > change. Finally got within range of an Apple store and they > diagnosed it as a bad drive (went off 1-yr warranty about 9 months > earlier) and gave me a choice of purchase of a new internal drive > or of an external drive off the shelf. I declined both since I > didn't need the DVD burn capability, bought an inexpensive external > drive which came with Toast for about $100, much cheaper than the > extended warranty would have been. Much faster than the internal > drive. > > We'll see what other experiences come in. > > Fred > > At 14:17 -0500 24/12/2005, Don Distel wrote: >> I have a white 600 dual usb ibook 14inch with the combo drive >> running 10.4.2 and the cd burner is now giving me an error message >> when I try to burn a cd. The message says - Sorry the operation >> could not be completed because an unexpected error occurred >> (Error code 0x8002006D) and when I click ok it ejects the disc. I >> have tried several different brands of cds and no difference. It >> will read a cd ok. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,Don >> www.distelphoto.com > _______________________________________________ > iBook mailing list > iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >