[juneau-lug] Sick Power Mac CD-RW/DVD Drive Bows to the Penguin!! :-D

I got my burned ISO discs in the mail today, and to my surprise when I 
held down the option key at reboot my system revealed the Tux to boot 
from!!!!!

Little history: I got a refurbished Power Mac G4 for 1k just a couple 
weeks ago and it has a hardware problem. The Combo CD-RW/DVD drive will 
mount an audio CD, but plays it with faint music and loud static. It 
will mount a blank CD and burn audio, but with the same loud static. It 
will mount a DVD and launch the DVD Player app in OS-X, but it will not 
play the movie. It will not mount a CD-ROM. How could Apple overlook 
something as evident as this?  I and Apple thought the problem was the 
drive, and they sent me a new one, yet I still had the same problem 
with the new drive. Tomorrow  I am taking it to the Mac tech at Juneau 
Electronics to get it diagnosed.

I am impressed it booted from the Yellow Dog install CD. It would not 
boot from the Panther (OS-X version 10.3.0) upgrade CD though. Penguin 
Power!! ;-)

Any thoughts?

Chad


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