iMac recognizes data but not audio CDs

Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
My iMac recognizes data CDs just fine, e.g., the Apple Hardware diagnostics disk and the OS X boot disk, but has a problem with audio CDs and game CDs. When I put in an audio CD the Superdrive starts to spin up, stops and repeats about five times before ejecting after a minute or two - but no error message.



A couple of weeks ago I jumped from 10.2.4 to 10.2.6, and this seems to correlate with the problem. At the time I updated all of my software via the SFU panel. When my problem started I ran all the diagnostic tests I could think of and nothing was found.



Anyone else experiencing this problem? Do you think it's software or hardware related? I originally thought I'd broken the Superdrive, but it reads the Apple data disks that come with the iMac just fine.



Any help appreciated.

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    ebbyebby Posts: 3,110member
    My laptop does that with DVD's now & then. I just keep trying/restart and eventually they work.
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