Jan
6
Very strange Superdrive problem
My macbook pro suddenly refused to write dvd’s. Offcourse you think your dvd writer is dead, but reading cd and dvd’s worked just fine.
The error I got was:
The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media
So I started to investigate and found out thanks to macosxhints forum it was a MacOS X software problem with a crazy and unbelievable fix which is the following:
Open System Preferences.
Click on “International”
Under “Languages”: Drag any of the other languages to the top,
then drag English back to the top.
Set “Order for sorted lists” to English
Set “Word Break” to English (United States, computer)
Close System Preferences
Restart computer (this seemed not necessary)
A response from Apple support stated:
Perhaps there is a communication problem somewhere so that the proper region code can not be determined.
Anyway, It works
