Under certain environmental and heavy use conditions, the above drives may become unable to read or write to CDs. Pioneer is aware of a potential issue with the above drives’ CD (not DVD) read/write capability. The service issue does not pose any health or safety risk. If you are not experiencing any issues currently, there is no need to take immediate action. The issue occurs only under limited environmental and use conditions that are not typical for most end users, so Pioneer anticipates that most users will not be affected. Contact Pioneer for a free replacement, here is the url this is a known issue with Pioneer DVR-112D, drive needs to be replaced. Again I am trying to run this on an Apple Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) Mac OS 10.4.11

Again I am trying to run this on an Apple Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) Mac OS 10.4.11 Hello early1234 and all Gurus. When I use the application Toast 8 to burn a CD I get this message: The burn failed because of a medium write error.' When I attempt to burn thru iTunes, I get the this message' The attempt to burn disc failed.

The specs say I should be able to burn up to 40x CD-R. I tried to clean the lens with the Maxell Lens Cleaner CD-345 (Brush system, no liquids or wiping by hand).

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