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Apple Posts Slot-Loading Drive Update

Posted by pudge on from the playing-the-slots dept.

K-dog writes "Apple has posted a firmware update for the slot loading combo drives in Xserves and PowerBooks. 'This update installs new firmware on PowerBook and Xserve Combo drives. The update prevents Combo drives from intermittently failing to eject discs. It's recommended that you install this update to ensure that your Combo drive avoids this problem.' It's kind of ironic that I spent an hour on the phone with Apple trying to get one of our new 12" PB to eject!" I have a new-ish PowerBook G4/867, with a Combo drive, and it reports, "This hardware does not require this update." I wish Apple would be more specific about what systems this is actually for. Or maybe what the problem is.

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  1. Enough! by mikedaisey · · Score: 0, Redundant


    I love Apple too, but this is silly--how did this firmware update get on the front page? It doesn't even affect all that many Apple users...I don't see Windows updates on the main page, and I'm glad about that--because it isn't really news. In a category, certainly--but there MUST be something you can post to the front page that's more vital than this, isn't there?

  2. And I was, like ? heh? by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I was listening to a CD, and it was, like, working fine. And then, like, there was an update to fix my problems. And I was, like ? heh?

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