>Surprise to end all surprise, made me fonder of my iMac Rev D to boot, >it mount any cd I place within, erase a cdrw, prepares a cdrw, but falls >flat in the writing department. I am currently running 10.1.5, and 10.2 >will be here before the week is out (got it from Other World Computing).
I had a sony sepressa USB CDRW drive and I had HUGE problems getting it to write reliably in OS X. From what I found, it was really the USB adaptor that was the problem (it would hang OS X when you tried to start something like Toast). Reading from the drive was always fine. I'm assuming you are not using a specific Sony USB drive since you said you added the drive to a USB case. So your probably may not be the same problem I saw. I can tell you however, that the USB on that iMac (USB 1.0) tops out at 4x writing (you can sometimes push 6x if you don't do anything else that might suck up USB bandwidth). So if you are trying to write at your 40x speed over USB, it will definitly fail. If you want that kind of speed, you need to go with firewire. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
