new dvd burner for G4

2013-02-02 Thread Paolo Tassotti
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

Re: new dvd burner for G4

2013-02-03 Thread Paolo Tassotti
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

internal cdrom eject

2013-02-17 Thread Paolo Tassotti
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

Re: internal cdrom eject

2013-02-17 Thread Paolo Tassotti
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