Hey Folks, I was still getting irritated about the DVD burner on my machine. Because of sage advice from Lee, I ended up taking a long path to updating the firmware on my superdrive to a newer version than what Apple supplies. Now everything is just fine.
It's a bit on the arcane side, so I'm not gonna post the details here, but I'll point you to the right places: Getting the firmware from Pioneer: http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/article/ 0,,2076_4273_128163990,00.html My machine wouldn't boot into MacOS 9, so I went the long way. I found an OS X updater: http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=31035 This wasn't enough, because the kernel was not included in the Pioneer firmware. Luckily this could be found using this person's advice. Search the following page for PKB2 http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=30233 The only glitch here was needed a peecee to extract the proper kernel from the package mentioned. Luckily(?) I have VirtualPeeCee so I could do the extraction and then run the firmware update. All is well (so far) and the drive burned and verified 2 of 2 burns (as opposed to 7 straight coasters before). Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050613/29a21cf9/attachment.bin
