eMac Combo Drive Not working

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• Reply 1 of 6

  fahlman Posts: 740member

  July 25, 2005 6:01PM

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  Originally posted by lugee
  
  Hello,
  
  
  
  I'm trying to burn a disk image using disk Utility with my eMac G4 700Mhz running Tiger 10.4.2.
  
  
  
  I keep getting the error message: 'Unable to burn - The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media"
  
  
  
  Does this mean my drive has failed and i need to get a new one or can this be fixed in someway ?
  
  
  
  Thanks for you help
  

  
  

  
  
  Try burning at a slower speed, maybe?
• Reply 2 of 6

  lugee Posts: 17member

  July 26, 2005 1:31AM

  Tried buring at slower speeds and still get the same problem. any more ideas ?
• Reply 3 of 6

  baranovich Posts: 184member

  July 26, 2005 8:19AM

  Try a different media brand. Some low quality brands cause all sorts of wierd problems.
• Reply 4 of 6

  lugee Posts: 17member

  July 26, 2005 2:29PM

  Yeah tried that too with 3 diffrent media brands including TDK still no luck!
  
  
  
  Anything else i can try ?
• Reply 5 of 6

  fahlman Posts: 740member

  July 26, 2005 4:14PM

  See this fix from Apple's support forum:
  
  
  
  open system preferences.
  
  go to international
  
  under languages: drag any of the other languages to the top, then drag english back to the top.
  
  make sure "order for sorted lists" is set to enlish
  
  make sure "work break" is set to english(united states, computer)
  
  then restart.
  
  
  
  A couple people have claimed that this fixed their similar problem. I don't have any idea why it would work, but they claim it does. Good luck!
• Reply 6 of 6

  lugee Posts: 17member

  July 31, 2005 2:36AM

  Thanks Fahlman, only just got around to trying your suggestion and it worked.
  
  
  
  Definitely the strangest fix i've seen for a problem.