Gee Marta, You even got me confused on that reply! :)
As I said, check your Toast preferences and be done with it. Most all internal drives, both hard drives and opticals are ATA. That describes the bus or the interface to the drive. Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 1041 Bardstown Road Louisville, KY 40204 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us http://www.mactown.us On 5/10/03 7:03 PM, "Marta Edie" <mledie at insightbb.com> wrote: > Always something new to learn. I checked under toast in the find file > Only found a bunch of encodings there . ( there is, however, in > Appleworks the graphic of a toaster !!) > Then I got smart and looked at the iTunes preferences. Well, the power > book has a Matshita CD -RW CW-8121 and my iMac has this Pioneer DVD-RW > DVR-105. It does not say anything about ATA ( which is the brand name > of a German scouring powder) There is nothing toasty about this, but > there is a difference with this Pioneer DVD in it. May some explaining > on that? But then, why would they ask me for a preferred player that > could not be found? Would they want me to buy one? and if, which one? > Not that I even had the notion to.- Why even mention something > preferred and not come up with an explanation of "why preferred" and > what preferred means. > Marta > > > On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 05:32 Uhr, Ward Oldham wrote: > >> Hi Marta, >> >> Don't know what you used to burn with but it sounds like you used >> Toast. It >> leads me to believe that the preferences were set for the wrong drive >> as if >> you had moved your copy of Toast from the Powerbook and it preserved >> the >> Powerbook preferences. >> >> You may want to open up Toast Preferences and just look at where you >> set >> this. With only one drive in your Mac, it will default to the internal >> drive that came with your Mac. >> >> Ward Oldham, MacDude >> MacTown >> 1041 Bardstown Road >> Louisville, KY 40204 >> 502-485-1243 >> ward at mactown.us >> http://www.mactown.us >> >> >> On 5/10/03 4:56 PM, "Marta Edie" <mledie at insightbb.com> wrote: >> >>> All you Disk Burners out there!! Please give me some input. I burned >>> a >>> CD on my new iMac. It told me it could not locate my preferred disk >>> burner, but would I want to use the DWD RW-DVR-105 ATA ? Of course I >>> said yes - what alternative was there?-and it burned OK. But my Power >>> book never asked me that and I would just like to know the difference >>> here. Thanks . >>> Marta >>> >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be May 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be May 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be May 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
