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Issue with Pioneer BDR-206 from OWC; troubleshooting and resolution
I thought someone might benefit from my morning spent troubleshooting.
I just received a Mercury Pro External BluRay burner from OWC (macsales.com) I initially plugged it in via FW800 to my Macbook Pro 2011. I opened Toast 9 and attempted to burn a data BluRay. I got an error that said; “connection is unstable” and I had to cancel the burn. At that point, the drive was locked up and I had to power it down and manually eject the disc. After that, I couldn’t get Toast to “see” the drive via FW800 or USB2. For kicks, I tried putting in different types of media; DVD, CD, BluRay… nothing would read. The drive would only make a little noise every two or three seconds, followed by the LED coming on. This would repeat endlessly.
I pulled the Pioneer BDR-206 out of the enclosure and rigged it to a Wiebetech enclosure I have. Whattayouknow?! It worked perfectly and I was able to burn a BluRay disc. So, apparently, the enclosure is the problem.
I wanted to narrow the problem down even further, so I put the Pioneer back in the Mercury Pro enclosure and tried to read my burned disc. No go. Same on and off behavior. So, I dug around and found an alternate power supply that matched the one that came with the Mercury Pro. I plugged it in and voila! Everything works like it is supposed to! So, bottom line, bad power supply on the Mercury Pro.
Hopefully this is helpful.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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Thanks Jason!
Posts like this are terribly helpful to the community. It is surprising how often a bad power supply can bring production to its knees.
Thanks again!!
– Bruce Colgate
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No problem, Bruce! Other World Computing was great about giving me an RMA to return the power supply for a replacement.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!
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