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
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
, Paolo Tassotti paolo.tasso...@gmail.comwrote:
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
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?
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On Feb 2, 2013, at 3:55 PM, Wayne Stewart wrote:
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?
Yes, this is the correct
At what point did Apple remove the OEM burner requirement for iLife? My
iMac (below) needs a new optical drive and I'm wondering if it has to be
Pioneer.
Tina
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iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForceFX5200 Ultra 64MB VRAM 10.4.11
PB G4 15 HR-DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeon 9700 128MB VRAM
On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Tina K. wrote:
At what point did Apple remove the OEM burner requirement for
iLife? My iMac (below) needs a new optical drive and I'm wondering
if it has to be Pioneer.
Tina
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I have Pioneer, LITEON and Samsung burners all run without a hitch.
John
On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Tina K. wrote:
At what point did Apple remove the OEM burner requirement for iLife? My iMac
(below) needs a new optical drive and I'm wondering if it has to be Pioneer.
10.5, but patchburn will make virtually any drive work with everything.
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Bruce Johnson
On 2011/06/01 14:08, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote:
On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Tina K. wrote:
At what point did Apple remove the OEM burner requirement for iLife? My iMac
(below) needs a new optical drive and I'm wondering if it has to be Pioneer.
10.5, but patchburn will make
to mention that
any devices attached to the card would NOT be bootable... a rather
LARGE OVERSIGHT IMHO! Especially, since I had made my requirements
known from the git-go.
In fact, the re-flashed controller card will run the SATA DVD burner,
and it will run a NON-BOOTABLE HDD (you can';t even install
On Nov 19, 12:49 pm, Ross olfec...@digizip.com wrote:
On Nov 16, 12:03 pm, Ross olfec...@digizip.com wrote:
... I will report back on whether it actually
works for ATAPI devices, or not...
Working fine under OS X 10.4.11! SYBA tech support also says my WD
Raptor should run without
/search.drivedb.lasso
Cheers, Stewie
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:22:55 -0800
Subject: Re: SATA card for DVD burner in a MDD
From: olfec...@digizip.com
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
On Nov 19, 12:49 pm, Ross olfec...@digizip.com wrote:
On Nov 16, 12:03 pm, Ross olfec...@digizip.com wrote:
... I
On Nov 16, 12:03 pm, Ross olfec...@digizip.com wrote:
I ordered the SYBA PCI-X model SD-PCXSA2-2E2R from mwave, and am
waiting for it to show up. I will report back on whether it actually
works for ATAPI devices, or not. If it does, I may have a Seritek 1V4
to sell.
Here is the procedure to
the TSST SH223S drive I have recently
purchased. I tried running the DVD burner off the Seritek card, but
although it is recognized, it is effectively non-responsive. Pressing
the eject key on the keyboard eventually opens/closes the drive tray,
but takes a very long time. The drive may function
plug into it and test it to see
if it is also bootable.
From what I have read some can , some can't.
Stewie
From: billycarm...@verizon.net
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: SATA card for DVD burner in a MDD
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:18:06 -0500
On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:09 PM
, but it
is a 4-port internal that costs about $89.99-$119.00. Way too much for
simply adding a SATA DVD burner to my MDD, unless I can sell the
Seritek 1V4 for about the same amount.
There may be some SIL3512 based cards that will work as well. Still
looking...
Anyway, thanks to all who tried to help
I have
found an alternate card that will work under 10.5.8 and 10.6.1, but it
is a 4-port internal that costs about $89.99-$119.00. Way too much for
simply adding a SATA DVD burner to my MDD, unless I can sell the
Seritek 1V4 for about the same amount.
There may be some SIL3512 based cards
: SATA card for DVD burner in a MDD
From: olfec...@digizip.com
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
What is the cheapest functional SATA card available for use in a MDD
DP1.42GHz system to run SATA DVD drives? I already have a Seritek 1V4
installed and running my hard drives, but the 1V4
On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:09 PM, Stewie de Young wrote:
Ross , I thought someone might have weighed in with some advice by
now but not so far.
I don't know the answer to your question but if you go here
http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drivedb/search.drivedb.lasso
and just select
Interface type
running the DVD burner off the Seritek card, but
although it is recognized, it is effectively non-responsive. Pressing
the eject key on the keyboard eventually opens/closes the drive tray,
but takes a very long time. The drive may function using Disk Utility/
Burn, but does not work under Toast 7.13
First, Thanks to all who replied. I was looking at supported DVD's
that the system said it could write:
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D:
Firmware Revision:1.21
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Unsupported)
Profile Path: None
Cache:2000 KB
Reads DVD:Yes
CD-Write:
Gus wrote:
First, Thanks to all who replied. I was looking at supported DVD's
that the system said it could write:
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D:
Firmware Revision: 1.21
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Unsupported)
Profile Path: None
Cache: 2000 KB
, UDF, and Joliet file systems. I don't know if
it makes video CD's, but I only cared about that when I didn't have a
DVD burner.
ImgBurn can even take a Mac disc (which WIndows won't normally see),
and make an ISO image file out of it so that I can burn it as another
Mac disc.
Compared to so
I currently have a PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D installed in my G3 BW.
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name:PowerMacG3series
Machine Model:PowerMac1,1
CPU Type:PowerPC 750 (2.2)
Number Of CPUs:1
CPU Speed:400 MHz
L2 Cache (per CPU):1 MB
Memory:768 MB
Bus
At 6:40 PM -0500 4/22/09, Gus Rego posted:
I currently have a PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D installed in my G3 BW.
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name:PowerMacG3series
Machine Model:PowerMac1,1
CPU Type:PowerPC 750 (2.2)
Number Of CPUs:1
CPU Speed:400 MHz
L2 Cache
), and burns all kinds of discs - data and movie DVD
(single or dual layer), data and audio CD. It lets you choose any
combination of ISO9660, UDF, and Joliet file systems. I don't know if
it makes video CD's, but I only cared about that when I didn't have a
DVD burner.
ImgBurn can even take a Mac disc
, no problems
found. I used the Hardware Test from the Restore DVD, no problems
found. Internal DVD burner accepts 8x burn in preferences but still
refuses to burn faster than 1x/2x with both Toast 9.0.2 and Disk
Utility.
Hooked up Firewire DVD burner... burns discs (same brand/spool) at 8x
At 1:24 AM -0500 1/17/2009, Steve R wrote:
I'm confused. Why exactly do you think a bad stick of memory would
cause one DVD burner to talk at a lower speed while the other DVD
burner is fine? Are you seeing error messages from the kernel in
system log screaming about soft memory errors
At 9:58 AM -0500 1/17/09, Dan posted:
At 1:24 AM -0500 1/17/2009, Steve R wrote:
I'm confused. Why exactly do you think a bad stick of memory would
cause one DVD burner to talk at a lower speed while the other DVD
burner is fine? Are you seeing error messages from the kernel
If your RAM is bad usually you have major problems running the computer.
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
At 1:24 AM -0500 1/17/2009, Steve R wrote:
I'm confused. Why exactly do you think a bad stick of memory would
cause one DVD burner to talk at a lower
:
At 1:24 AM -0500 1/17/2009, Steve R wrote:
I'm confused. Why exactly do you think a bad stick of memory would
cause one DVD burner to talk at a lower speed while the other DVD
burner is fine? Are you seeing error messages from the kernel in
system log screaming about soft memory errors
On Jan 17, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Dan wrote:
It just makes no sense to me that differing memory sticks would
affect the burning speed of one drive but the not the other.
Because Bad RAM is deep voodoo.
On my 7600 it caused my internal SCSI chain to malfunction when a G4
CPU was installed.
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At 12:26 PM -0700 1/17/09, Kyle Parish posted:
Could it be that the BUS speed was slower on the RAM that caused
the problems.
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Kyle Parish parishky...@gmail.com wrote:
If your RAM is bad usually you have major problems running the computer.
Bus speed per
At 12:26 PM -0700 1/17/2009, Kyle Parish wrote:
Could it be that the BUS speed was slower on the RAM that caused the problems.
Memory bus vs I/O bus vs Burner speed. (and their respective orders
of magnitude).
Even if the memory was running slow, it would STILL be way faster
than a DVD
Okay... here's what I've done so far. I ran memtest in single user
mode, no problems found. I reran it on a regular restart, no problems
found. I used the Hardware Test from the Restore DVD, no problems
found. Internal DVD burner accepts 8x burn in preferences but still
refuses to burn faster
Can anyone recommend an DVD/CD burner/player for a G4 Sawtooth running Mac OS X
10.2 and that has a non-working DVD/CD burner (it's not a Super Drive)? I would
like to take the non-working player out and replace it with a Super Drive or
something that does the same work as a Super Drive. If I
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Mike Baker psufa...@yahoo.com wrote:
Can anyone recommend an DVD/CD burner/player for a G4 Sawtooth running Mac
OS X 10.2 and that has a non-working DVD/CD burner (it's not a Super Drive)?
I would like to take the non-working player out and replace it with a
I have been using a PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D on my G3 BW.. it reads/
writes/burns CD-R +R and RW as well DVD-R +R and RW... its been a
good little drive for the money.
Hope this helps.
On Dec 20, 5:45 pm, Mike Baker psufa...@yahoo.com wrote:
Can anyone recommend an DVD/CD burner/player for a
At 9:30 AM -0700 9/3/08, Bruce Johnson posted:
On Sep 3, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Steve R wrote:
Recent threads have maintained that all recent/modern DVD readers can
read dual layer disks, yet I know I have to use my external Pioneer
drive to read dual layer.
Any DVD drive capable of
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