Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 568 from 2015/6/17
From: Funeralopolis
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Do I just say "screw it" and buy a G5 Powermac?
Well, I had the same problem on my G5 PowerMac.
...and on a PowerBook G4 too. In both cases I tried cleaning the lens first but it didn't work out. So I got new (used) optical drives which have been working happily since. Seems a quite common issue. But there are plenty of compatible drives on ebay, even the slot-in drives for the PowerBooks.
PMac G5 11,2. PMac G4 3,6. PBook G4 5,8. [MorphOS 3.19 / Adelie Linux / Gentoo Linux] | A600GS [Amibench / OS 3.2] | Talos II Secure Workstation. [Gentoo Linux]
