>Hi Listers,
Is anyone using an iOmega CD-RW USB drive with their PCI Mac successfully ? I bought mine several months ago. It has been connected to 2 different machines. Attempted to run it under 8.6, 9 and 9.1. Also upgraded the Hotburn utility and tried the Musicmatch software and Toast Lite too. Also with USB 1 and USB 2. I have tried three different disk types. Also have tried various speed settings. Four different USB cables have been tried too.
I don't have an iOmega CD-RW, mines a Que! USB drive. I found that Toast will suggest 16X speed (the max this drive will do), but anything over 4X is too much for USB 1 to handle. When burning audio 2X is as fast as it will work.
Strangely enough two of the diska that came out fine were on 16X media under USB 1 and I did not know how to set the speed at that time ! Gremlins did it !
>The machine works as it should when plugged into my friend's PC . On my Macs it has burned successfully four times and made about 25 coasters. iOmega support just regurgitates the manual. Monday night I tried 12 times and all seemed to be normal but every time I put the disk into the system drive it was reported as unreadable even though the "initialize or eject" panel reported the file size accurately. And said it is in Mac format (?). Prerecorded disks are read normally by this drive.
Are you sure you have all the associated extentions installed? It almost sounds like one of the CD format extentions disappeared.
The iOmega driver is installed as is the Apple USB set. This is on all odf the drives I've tried it with.
(various OS versions)
I really need this to work. It's holding up my projects. I've been tempted to use the hammer treatment on it . But it has gone beyond that. I am determined to make it work if it ever will.
I'm all for the hammer treatment; it's very good therapy. Just make sure you do it in the presence of the other machines you own, just to show 'em who's in charge :)
My buddy did that with the Jaz drive iOmega sent him to replace his first one. It was when they were newer and full price. Expensive therapy but I never heard him say he regretted doing it! And he's usually a very quiet guy. But he had enough. And I agree you should love your machines but a little intimidation keeps them in their place.
Good luck,
Thanks I'll need it.
Adrian
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