I am ready to visit a Mac Genius and make them replace this piece of shit drive. Every 4th disc, CD/DVD, gets rejected from the drive - sometimes trying again works, other times, I can try 10 times with no positive result. The first time I noticed this was Harry Potter on DVD.
At first I thought it was Warner Brothers trying to protect themselves from piracy, but then I tried a bunch of (good) burned discs, all with the same effect. Also, my volume 2 of Firefly is rejected, but the others work fine. Sure, these discs might have a tiny abnormality, but the thing just spins and spins and then spits the disc out! There is no way to mount the disc or override this function as far as I know. This is what I consider broken and I want a new one.
Support for my claim: MacBook Pro: Optical Drive
Update: The AppleCare disc was rejected the other day - that is my closing argument for when I go get someone to replace this thing.
Update: About a month later I took my MacBook in to the Apple store for repairs as I was going on vacation - the Millenia sroe was closed for renovations, so I went to the Florida Mall store, and the Mac Genius was very helpful. I proved the drive was busted, gave them my administrator password and went out of town, lugging my old PC laptop. When I came back, my MacBook Pro was as good as new and I haven't had any problems burning since. I wish I could have upgraded to a dual-layer drive, but I guess you get what you get.
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my macbook has also been up
my macbook has also been up to the same damn thing...and its really starting to get to me. it doesn't ever do it on blank CDs, only blank DVD media i try with it. Me thinks apple made a big mistake putting these POS MatSHITa drives in. Another call to Apple Care better solve this problem, i want an LG! First my harddrive, now my burner, whats next with this notebook??