Apple CD-RW drives can’t write to high-speed discs

Apple has confirmed that the CD-RW drive included with some Macintosh computers can read from, but cannot write to, high-speed CD-RW discs.

In a Tech Info Library document updated Monday and first reported by MacFixIt.com, Apple confirms the problem on Power Mac G4 computers with a CD-RW drive and warns users to “only use CD-RW discs that are rated from 1x to 4x speed. The CD-RW drive in your computer cannot write to high-speed CD-RW discs (4x to 10x speed). Although the drive cannot write to high-speed CD-RW discs, it can read them.”

“If you try to write to a high-speed CD-RW disc an alert box with this error message appears: “There was a problem with the target device. Error code -7932,” the document states as the way to identify the problem.