Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1510 from 2012/11/10
From: Manchester, UK/GB
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Kidon - It's fairly rare for a CD-DVD writer to become faulty from a hardware perspective. Usually it is the lens that gets a few, or more, specs of dust or debris on it, that just needs to be cleaned off with either some isopropyl alcohol, or window glass cleaning solution, which also usually contains isopropyl alcohol.
I usually get a piece of kitchen tissue, and I mean a small square, about 2x2cm and fold it loosely and spray some fluid onto the lower part, and wipe the glass lens with the very tip/edge of the tissue very lightly, and that more often than not removes the debris that was stopping the CD-DVD drive from reading or writing data off the disc.
Of course you'd need to remove the DVD-CD drive from inside the Power Mac, which is fairly simple to do, as there are 2 swing clips that release the drive from its bay, and you just need to disconnect the data, audio and power leads, and then take the screws out of the base of drive and separate the 2 halves of the drive assembly to reveal the lens area. Then you can check, if you happen to have a magnifying glass/lens of some kind, if there happens to be debris on it.
If you were in the UK I could send you a "burnt" cd of MorphOS v3.18 if you can't do it yourself, but Mac OSX has an option to burn normal ISO data files to disc (DVD or CD) as part of the system software, but you need to know if the DVD-CD can be got working first of all. I feel sure it could, as I have a few Power Macs and all the DVD-CD drives in them work normally.
MacMini 1.5GHz,64MB VRAM, PowerBooks A1138/9 (Model 5,8/9),PowerMac G5 2.3GHz(DP), iMac A1145 2.1GHz 20", all with MorphOS v3.18+,Airport,Bluetooth,A1016 Keyboard,T-RB22 Mouse,DVD-RW-DL,MiniMax,Firewire/USB2 & MacOSX 10.4/5