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B S Magnet

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On a one-to-ten priority scale of importance, this one ranks just below a “1”. But since it happens every time, and since I was in the middle of doings things today when it happened, I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to ask.

If you use 10.6.8 on a Mac which is designed to run 10.6.8 (as supported by Apple), have you ever experienced your SuperDrive/Combo Drive on a MacBook Pro, MacBook, Mac mini, or Mac Pro running an automated ejection of media — even if there’s nothing in the drive — precisely at the strike of midnight?

If this does happen on other hardware, I wouldn’t know about it, since only two of my Macs run 10.6.8; one of those, from virtually the day I bought it new, has had an HDD caddy in lieu of of the SuperDrive. The Mac on which this is happening is my A1261 C2D Penryn MBP. I have not been able to figure out why this happens, or what process is behind it, and the system log doesn’t seem to indicate a trigger, either:

Code:
Feb 17 00:00:01 urbanologia auditd[84764]: Auditing enabled
Feb 17 00:00:01 urbanologia auditd[84764]: auditd_read_dirs(): all audit log directories over soft limit
Feb 17 00:00:01 urbanologia auditd[84764]: renamed /var/audit/20220217035744.not_terminated to /var/audit/20220217035744.20220217040001
Feb 17 00:00:01 urbanologia auditd[84764]: New audit file is /var/audit/20220217040001.not_terminated
Feb 17 00:00:05 urbanologia com.apple.AEServer[84783]: launchproxy[84783]: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/AE.framework/Versions/A/Support/AEServer: Connection from: 127.0.0.1 on port: 64796
Feb 17 00:00:05 urbanologia ARDAgent[185]: Connect to task server thread (2) got NULL connection info pointer.


As noted, this is low priority stuff, but curiosity always gets the best of me. Cheers.
 

Hughmac

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Feb 4, 2012
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And the answer is, nothing happened, no sound or movement from the drive.

However, another slight irritant, my old and long gone A1181 MacBooks and my current A1286 mid 2012 MBP have the annoying habit of showing activity on the super drive when waking from sleep.

Cheers :)

Hugh
 

lepidotós

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I can't say I've experienced that, but I have noticed turning off Kennedy's backlight, setting it down to do the task I've given it, and the backlight coming back on between 11 PM and 3 AM while I'm trying to sleep. Only started happening with Snow Leopard IIRC.​
 
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