Whacky CD Drive.

[Buck]

Does anybody know why a CD Drive will mount Cd's. Then turn around and not mount a Cd? That's the way of it with my Performa 6360. Not much more that I can tell you. Sometimes they mount, sometimes they won't. My drive cleaner CD mounts everytime. But others won't. Thanks, Buck

[Gregg]

I've had certain CDs that won't mount, in whatever computer I tried them in. If it's consistently the same CD that won't mount, try it in another computer. It might just be a bad CD and not the drive at all.

[kelly]

Is that the stock CD?  

Are some of them that won't mount burned CDs or CDRWs?

Do you have all the CD related Extensions loaded?

[Buck]

Some disk that won't mount: Norton, Mac System 8.5.1 installer CD. Seems that CD's that won't mount are CD's that do not have system folders on them.

[kelly]

So you have cleaned the CD Drive?  

Are those scratched?

[Buck]

The CD drive is clean and the CD's in question are in B+ condition. But like I said, the only CD's that seem to work are the one's with system folders on the CD.

[Paddy]

http://www.macinstruct.com/tutorials/eric/driveclean/

for a really thorough cleaning tutorial.

Interesting that you're having this problem Buck - I rescued several 6360's from the Andover recycling day back in September and one of them had the same problem. I donated them to the schools in North Andover and our head tech said that this was not an uncommon problem with this model. More than that I don't know - I haven't been able to find any helpful references online. I also don't know if a new CD-ROM drive would solve the problem or not - I ran out of spare drives to try.