On 7/6/19 2:58 AM, Brad Boyer wrote:
On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 01:28:20PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 4/6/19 2:44 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
It???s *possible* that the DVD drive in the dual-socket machine is not able to
boot from DVD-RW. (I have seen this before occasionally)
Try burning to a DVD-R
Oh that is just wild. Just an off the wall wild idea.
Thank you for that as I was really beginning to suspect hardware.
I have a pile of DVD+RW dual Layer media and maybe .. maybe somewhere a
DVD-R kicking around. Really .. who uses this stuff anymore ever since
the USB thumbdrive thing was invented?
I know this thread is old, but I wanted to give some input. The original
optical drives in the early G5 systems don't officially support DVD-RW.
I'm pretty sure I got mine to read some of them, but it's unreliable.
I have been through this a few times and have seen some oddball behavior
from ye old G5. I say oddball because a DVD drive should "just work" and
even for something from ten years ago. However it doesn't.
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Dennis Clarke
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