In article, I take it you've tried cleaning the drive? Anyhow, for internal DVD drives, I've purchased replacement units from Other World Computing that I've been happy with in the past: For external drives, I purchased a LaCie d2 DVD burner on: It was an excellent drive - it was fast, never screwed up burns, and was compatible with all Apple software.

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In March 2008 the drive suddenly stopped recognizing all media (blank or not). Unfortunately, the warranty for these units back then was for only one year. Luckily, LaCie support was nice enough to give me a decent discount on a new replacement drive though ($60 off).

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The current drives have longer.two. year warranties, and my replacement drive is still working just fine today, four years later. Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR Steinar Moum 17/2/2012, 6:03 น.

Jolly Roger wrote: Steinar Moum wrote: I am on my second Optiarc DVD RW AD-7170A in a Mac Pro 2,8 GHz. The drive has grown increasingly worse and quite often denies reading or burning disks. I use Verbatim 8x DVD+R DL. I am looking for a hazzelfree substitute for this drive. Can anybody recomend a good one? I have found some old Pioneers, but it has to be a current model easy to find. Any pointers?

I take it you've tried cleaning the drive? Anyhow, for internal DVD drives, I've purchased replacement units from Other World Computing that I've been happy with in the past: For external drives, I purchased a LaCie d2 DVD burner on: It was an excellent drive - it was fast, never screwed up burns, and was compatible with all Apple software. In March 2008 the drive suddenly stopped recognizing all media (blank or not). Unfortunately, the warranty for these units back then was for only one year. Seems to be from the LaCie 'Toshiba-years'.-( - You're not the only one who suffered that pain. Luckily, LaCie support was nice enough to give me a decent discount on a new replacement drive though ($60 off). The current drives have longer.two.

year warranties, and my replacement drive is still working just fine today, four years later. LaCie found that they were better off returning to use LiteOn and Pioneeers units if they would keep the renomee intact.:-) I bought way back in 2001 a 52x LaCie d2 CD-only Firewire RW drive for professional duplicating use (music production).

Until now I think this drive has burned apprx. 35-40.000 CDs and it is still functioning like new. It should replace my veeeery old 1995 LaCie d2 P7502S (Panasonic) /four speed/ burner with special firmware for music production. That oldie is the most precise burning drive I ever have had - and it's still funtioning like new after more than 40.000 burnings, though it's rather seldon I use it now.

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At that time the price was near $700USd.