[Ham-Mac] OT - but I'm stumped!

[harris ruben]

>Is your HD almost full, less than 1 gig?  I had the same problem 
>until I made more space on the HD for the CD imaging files, swap 
>files, etc. After that my nearly dead drive would mount AND burn the 
>disk. It's worth a look.

No, I have more than half of a 60gig drive left. I ordered a new 
superdrive from cdetech. I hope it works.

It was going bad for 6 months or so. First it ejected CDs I was 
trying to burn, then it wouldn't boot from Norton, later it wouldn't 
mount any CDs, and wouldn't boot from TT4, either. The only CD that 
worked was the Apple Hardware Test (silver) CD, and that was just 
fine (!).

A day at the Apple Store at least let me run TT4 from another Mac to 
clean up some problems, and the guys were just great, but even they 
recommended I get a new superdrive.

Part of the problem with my G4 MAY have been that the fan holes in 
the back of the tower had been clogged with an oily dust layer 
accumulated over the course of a year or so under the bench. I 
suspect that excess heat did the damage. I hope and pray that the 
motherboard is OK. Anyway, that's my guess.

I'll report back in a week or so, after the new drive comes, and let 
you know if it worked.

thanks

harris