new dvd burner for G4
Hi, I'm looking for a new DVD burner for my Mac G4. My old LaCie d2 DVD+/-RW has some serious problem with its power supply, two in a row got broken in a few years. Since it seems to be some sort of inevitable design issue, I don't want to buy another power supply (doomed to the same fate I imagine...) so I have to resort to something new. Is there something both affordable and compatible with a G4 running Tiger or Leopard ? Googling around I've seen that most of portable burners for laptops seems not to work with PPC machines (probably dued to some problems with usb 2.0 inteface...). All Firewire burners (from Lacie and other manufactors) are very high-end (with BluRay support), thus very expensive... any ideas ? should I resort to a used unit ? thanks paolo -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: new dvd burner for G4
Thanks Wayne ! It works ! Wonder why I didn't think to this before ! I greatly appreciate your hint, I owe you 50 bucks at least ! :P paolo 2013/2/2, Wayne Stewart waynejstew...@gmail.com: All the Lacie D2 DVD drives I've seen used a regular ide optical drive. Since almost any ide optical drive works in the G4, why not just pull it out of the case and install it in the G4 in place of the stock one? -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
internal cdrom eject
As suggested by some of you, I've swapped the internal CD burner of my G4 with a Nec DVD burner grabbed from a Lacie enclosure whose power supply is apparently dead. All works fine, but I would be even happier if the eject button on my keyboard would work as it did with the old Sony reader ! I don't want to run Roxio Toast Titanium every time I need to read a CD... Is there any solution for this ? -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: internal cdrom eject
RE: your first concern, does the eject module (the one that is placed by the OS in the upper task-Menu- bar) work if you click on it? If you don't have it present, and would like it, go to HD/System/Library/CoreServices/MenuExtras - double click on the Eject.menu script and the little triangle will appear. I'm curious if your disc drive responds to that. yes, it works ! RE: your second concern, my first thought was to go into the CD/DVDs Preference Panel (System Preferences/Hardware/CDs DVDs) and set it to Ask when a disc is loaded. this is not a big deal since every disk is properly recognized when inserted. paolo -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
