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James Harvey - 27 Jan 2006 04:02 GMT

Hi,

Are there any third party burners fully compatible with OS X 10.3.8? I
have a Samsung burner that works well with Patchburn, but I get
occasional errors when burning, or trying to view a disc with DVD Player
that was finalized on another dvd recorder. Is native support not there
for OS X or what?

TIA,
James

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David C. - 27 Jan 2006 04:20 GMT

> Are there any third party burners fully compatible with OS X 10.3.8?
> I have a Samsung burner that works well with Patchburn, but I get
> occasional errors when burning, or trying to view a disc with DVD
> Player that was finalized on another dvd recorder. Is native support
> not there for OS X or what?

I can't say about 10.3.8, but I recently repalced the drive in my
PowerMac G4 with a Plextor PX-716A. I'm running Mac OS 10.4.4.

Patchburn was unnecessary. The drive shows up in the System Profiler,
saying that disc burning is available, but unsupported. I have
successfully burned data CDs from Toast, audio CDs from iTunes, and
video DVDs from Toasat without problem. I have yet to try iDVD.

-- David

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James Harvey - 28 Jan 2006 01:55 GMT

> > Are there any third party burners fully compatible with OS X 10.3.8?
> > I have a Samsung burner that works well with Patchburn, but I get
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>
> -- David

That's very interesting. Thanks.

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David C. - 31 Jan 2006 02:06 GMT

>> I can't say about 10.3.8, but I recently repalced the drive in my
>> PowerMac G4 with a Plextor PX-716A. I'm running Mac OS 10.4.4.
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>
> That's very interesting. Thanks.

Now that I'm sitting in front of that computer, here's what the System
Profiler reports about the drive:

    PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716A:

    Firmware Revision:        1.09
    Interconnect:            ATAPI
    Burn Support:            Yes (Unsupported)
    Profile Path:            None
    Cache:            8192 KB
    Reads DVD:            Yes
    CD-Write:            -R, -RW
    DVD-Write:            -R, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
    Burn Underrun Protection CD:    Yes
    Burn Underrun Protection DVD:    Yes
    Write Strategies:        CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
    Media:            No

The only thing missing here is support for "-R DL", which Plextor says
is supported. I suspect its absence from the System Profiler's listing
means that Apple doesn't yet have the support in their disc burning
code.

-- David

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Bob Nielsen - 31 Jan 2006 02:49 GMT

>>> I can't say about 10.3.8, but I recently repalced the drive in my
>>> PowerMac G4 with a Plextor PX-716A. I'm running Mac OS 10.4.4.
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> means that Apple doesn't yet have the support in their disc burning
> code.

I think Toast is able to get around the "unsupported" issue. I replaced
the combo drive in my Mini with a Pioneer drive and it show up as
"supported" in 10.4.4. It supposedly does +/- R DL, but system profile
only says +R:

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K05:

Firmware Revision:    1.03
Interconnect:    ATAPI
Burn Support:    Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported) Cache:    2000 KB
Reads DVD:    Yes
CD-Write:    -R, -RW
DVD-Write:    -R, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD:    Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD:    Yes
Write Strategies:    CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO Media:    No

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daystartech - 27 Jan 2006 13:05 GMT

> Hi,
>
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> TIA,
> James

For towers... I prefer the DVR (pioneer drives). The DVR-110 (supports
DVD-RAM too) and the DVR-110D both are excellent. You won't get the
dual layer support except with the latest version of toast.

For portables... the Panasonic UJ811 works great as well.

Depending on your current drive, the errors could be due to an internal
mechanical issue.

I know that our company (http://Daystar-Store.com) carries all of these
and more.

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Garner Miller - 27 Jan 2006 15:10 GMT

> Are there any third party burners fully compatible with OS X 10.3.8?

I bought a Pioneer DVR-110D for around $50 to replace the old original
SuperDrive in my G4 iMac. It works fine; it'll even boot the machine.
I'm using 10.4 now, but I don't think it matters in this instance.

> I have a Samsung burner that works well with Patchburn, but I get
> occasional errors when burning, or trying to view a disc with DVD
> Player that was finalized on another dvd recorder. Is native support
> not there for OS X or what?

I'd try different media before giving up on the burner. What brand are
you using?

I strongly recommend mail-ordering some Taiyo-Yuden DVD-R discs;
they've been far more reliable than anything else I've tried, both in
my burners and on my home DVD player.

I got my last batch here:
http://www.meritline.com/taiyo-yuden-dvd-media.html

These guys are also very competitive:
http://www.supermediastore.com/taiyo-yuden-dvd-r-media.html

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James Harvey - 28 Jan 2006 01:53 GMT

> > Are there any third party burners fully compatible with OS X 10.3.8?
>
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> I'd try different media before giving up on the burner. What brand are
> you using?

I use FujiFilm DVD-RW in my DVD recorder. Sometimes it works, after
finalizing, on the G4, sometimes not. I prolly need to buy a better
quality disk. I use Memorex DVD-R disks on the G4. No problems there.
I also use Verbatim DVD+R DL disks on the G4. I get an error using
Toast on the DL disks after burning but they play just fine.

> I strongly recommend mail-ordering some Taiyo-Yuden DVD-R discs;
> they've been far more reliable than anything else I've tried, both in
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> These guys are also very competitive:
> http://www.supermediastore.com/taiyo-yuden-dvd-r-media.html

Thanks for the tip.

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