CDs won't mount after installing Panther on iMac.

[stla]

Does anyone no the solution to this..........after undertaking a Panther installation on an iMac, CDs and DVDs won't mount on the desktop, they are merely ejected.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[dmacster]

Have you checked all firmware updates done for the iMac?

 

[stla]

Yes. The only one I could find was 4.19 which I undertook.

 

[dmacster]

Which iMac - what OS was it running before - combo drive or super drive - Panther standard or have done all the furthest (10.3.9)?

 

[stla]

iMac Strawberry 400MHZ/512K/128MB Ram/10GB HD/DVD/56K

Have done Panther all the way through to 10.3.9

Have undertaken DVD Firmware upgrade:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58557

I'm using a 9.2.2 harddrive to do the firmware updates.

It seems to refuse CDs and DVDs that aren't Apple native.

 

[dmacster]

Did you update the firmware BEFORE installing Panther?

 

[stla]

I fell in to the trap of simply putting in the Panther CD and starting up, this completley paralysed the machine (display etc.)as the firmware was too old.

Fortunately I had a second drive with 9.2.2 on it.

I booted from this and despite the bad display was able to updtae the firmware to 4.1.9f.

I then undertook a Panther install (from the CDs) all the way through to 10.3.9

It's only then I noticed the problem with the CD/DVD drive-

 

[Matzki]

Try creating a new user account, then log in as that new user and see if your CDs mount then. If so, you should be able to log in as your origional account and thing should work fine. This solved a CD mounting problem I had, but on a much newer machine. Worth a try, eh?

 

[stla]

No go!

Thanks for the tip anyway.

I've been searching on the net and found similar incidents like this, including your solution.

If I insert a CD like Norton Utilities, it's fine and it mounts, however insert a DVD or third party CD and it spits it out again.

 

[dmacster]

If it's in Classic mode does it still eject opticals?

 

[dmacster]

Oh - the optical media all worked before, are all commercial or been burned elsewhere?

 

[stla]

Yes, I get the same results in 9.2.2

All the DVDs and CDs etc worked before

 

[dmacster]

Well - confuses me a bit. Have you tried searching/posting here?

http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?14@865.pzc5aSOlRRe.1@.ef9fbcd

 

[stla]

Thanks for all your help!

I found something here, but it's not resolved:

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-32343.html

 

[dmacster]

Well, found an interesting post for you

http://p197.ezboard.com/fmacnightowlmessageboardtheibookboard.showMessage?topicID=45.topic

 

[dmacster]

Did you get it figured out?

 

[stla]

Sorry for the delay!

I've just undertaken the suggestion, but to no avail, it simply refuses certain media, even afterwards.

If I insert a standard CD like Norton,Quark 6 etc. it mounts, despite it taking a while.

The behaviour is exactly the same under 9.

I can therefore only draw the conclusuion that the device is faulty. After all the strange behaviour prompted me to install Apple's 1.0 DVD update for this type of iMac.

Thanks for all your help on this!