Wolfram Gottfried wrote: > > <SNIP >> and Apple - can't be bothered to issue a firmware update to >> bring it >> at least into the 20th century. I'm used to seeing several >> firmware >> updates for any optical drive I've used before. Most of >> these updates >> are for the purpose of being able to read more brands of >> discs. <SNIP> > In fact, most of my CD and DVD burning is done on Linux machines using PC > hardware, so the whole "Apple being above firmware updates" thing is pretty > much > a non-sequiter....slowing down the burn for compatibility isn't an Apple > thing by > any means - its equally significant on PC hardware..... >
This is a DVD ROM drive we are talking about, very few (If any) DVD ROM drives had upgradable firmware, this only came about with DVD writers, it has nothing to do with Apple V the rest of the world. It is well known that early Apple DVD drives disliked +R disks and any flavour of RW disks, the same was true of many early PC drives (In the CD days Sony got taken to court as they deliberately adjusted their CD drives to reject burned disks in the belief that it would stop piracy !!). Even if the firmware could have been upgraded it would still not fix the problem (the pioneer DVD writers in early Macs can be upgraded but still only burn -R disks). you either need to find a brand of disks that your Pismo likes, or change the drive or use an external FireWire drive. Ben. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
