More Mac problems... are these things actually reliable?

[oxygen1984]

Annoyingly the Mac had more problems again this week. The CD drive seemed to disappear and OS X had no clue of its existence. This was doubly annoying given that I had a rented DVD in it at the time. Anyway, I reset the PRAM (a Mac specific thing I think) and it seemed to start working again - though not immediately after so it could be something

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[willjsm]

The CD drive seemed to disappear and OS X had no clue of its existence. This was doubly annoying given that I had a rented DVD in it at the time.

Can I be really annoying and point out that this was probably the best as DVDs don't work in CD drives?

[oxygen1984]

Ah, should have pointed out that Macs don't have eject buttons on the case, so if the software can't tell it to eject, your stuck.

Also I think I've had bluray on my mind too much lately - 50 Gigabyes on one disk seems to make the difference between 0.7 and 4.7 seem like nothing...

[lady_jayne_1st]

An interesting fact about the Mac that I didn't know.

However, by my reading, I think you missed willjsm's point...