I need to burn a DVD with photos for a friend. So I throw a DVD-R into my optical drive, drag the files over and click burn. After a few minutes processing the data, I get an error returned that says, "The disc can't be burned; it might be incompatible with this disc drive. Please try a different brand on disc, or try burning at a slower speed."
This happens using DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-R/DL, TDK or Memorex. There's no rhyme or reason. To top it off, the disc gets stuck and causes the drive to crash. The only way I can eject my disc is to restart the computer and hold the eject button down during bootup.
At this point I think I may have a hardware problem. But it's pretty annoying! I feel like trying to burn anything in OS X has always been a huge ordeal.
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Why is burning optical media in OS X such a royal pain?
Apple is notorious for having faulty DVD drives, I see this all the time. Also, DVDs are fickle too..
Have you tried burning at a slower speed? If that doesn't work you might want to contact AppleCare.
Have you tried burning at a slower speed? If that doesn't work you might want to contact AppleCare.
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Optical drives is yet another thing that Apple sticks in their machines which, 180 to what His Steveness says, I suspect are other manufacturers' rejects.
It could be the media - but I'm more inclined to suspect the drive, as I've come across this before and it's turned out to be a failing drive every time, although it's not always been diagnosed the first time around. A Store visit is probably in order.
It could be the media - but I'm more inclined to suspect the drive, as I've come across this before and it's turned out to be a failing drive every time, although it's not always been diagnosed the first time around. A Store visit is probably in order.
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Use TOAST Titanium, that might help. I had some probs with my macbook pro, but now i TOAST cd/dvds easily.
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I had to have the SuperDrive in my MBP replaced about 6 months after I got the machine. There seem to be pretty consistent build quality issues with these drives.
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Tried it another time and got this error: "The disc can’t be burned, because the device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media."
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