smidge Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 my DVD drive had been working quite well but every now and then when i press the eject key the tray would fly out at twice the normal speed and then sit there, stuck the only way to reset it was total power off, gently push it back in and restart OR wait it out for a good 20 minutes and it would reset itself now the drive doesn't work AT ALL, so i'm sure its damaged anyone know why that might be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 I am not sure why, but I have the same problem with my ASUS DRW-2014L1T DVD burner. At least it is still working though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechWiz Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 it probably has something to do with the default drivers. Perhaps the firmware on that drive takes non-standard commands and is confusing the commands from OS X as one of those nonstandard commands and thus screwing up your drive. My suggestion is to try older versions of the kext for the controller the drive is on or (if it even exists) of the optical drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Maybe this can be fixed in DSDT. In the meantime, disabling sleep for hard drives in Energy Saver prefs should fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smidge Posted November 7, 2009 Author Share Posted November 7, 2009 well not sure if the hackintosh killed the drive or what but either way replacing the pioneer drive with a samsung has seemed to have fixed the problem the new drive behaves flawlessly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 I'm sure the drive is fine, it just isn't compatible with the way OS X wants to do Power Management. Try a firmware upgrade/reset/downgrade, maybe you can save it. It would be helpful if you could post the full model name of the new drive that works for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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