My cd drive in my blueberry iBook 300 has a ton of trouble reading burned (cd-r) disks. The same disks read perfectly in my Tibook.
If I put in a commercial disk (like my Jaguar CD's) they read perfectly and load fast.
Any ideas?
MaxTek
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Really your only choices. Those older CD-ROM readers aren't real tolerant of CD-R/W media, the drives having been released well before the R/W media became so widely used.
Sometimes a shot of compressed air can blow some laser-obstructing dust off the lens surface, worth a try before replacing the drive. I'd avoid trying to wipe the lens unless all else fails, the lens plastic scratches easily.
dan k
Can it be upgraded/retrofitted/adapted with any drives from newer iBooks?
I've been having the same problem myself! I've found that the reason it's not reading burnt CDs is that i've written on it with a sharpie! A burnt cd without writing usually works. See if that solves your problem.
How are you holding, or what surface do you put them on when you write on 'em? A felt tip of almost any kind should be fine on the label side of a CD.
That is weird about the Sharpie pen stuff. I write it on the label side and hold them by the edges. I will try a burned cd with no writing...it can't hurt.
...so I guess there are no ways to upgrade the drive using a newer ibook?
MaxTek
so you can use any standard slim optical drive from wherever you find it. Including from a later 'Book. The bezel won't match of course . . .
dan k
OK then . . . I agree with the previous post, so there!
dan k