Well, I've isolated the problems I'm having writing to my Panasonic/Matshita LF-D211A DVD-RAM drive.
If you recall, it was giving me a message that I could not write to it because this "Disk is Locked". I could copy data from it to my hard disk, I could do the same with a cd, and a formatted dvd/ram disk shows up and mounts just fine on my desktop. But something is preventing me from writing to the disks. I had thought maybe it was a messed up pin in the drive that tells the computer if a disk is copy protected. That isn't the problem. I now know this because I took the drive over to a friends who has an Apple G4 tower. We plugged it in and immediately began copying data to the dvd drive. My first thought then was that I'm missing some extensions. But I've since installed everything he has and still no change. I guess there may still be some driver I am unaware of. But now I'm wondering if maybe my VST Ultratek (Promise Card) ATA/66 does not recognize this DVD/RAM Drive? If anybody has any knowledge about this or where I can look up compatible drives, please let me know. I can't think of anything else it could be. One thing that both the prior owner and my friend had in common was that they both had OS 9.2 installed whereas I have 9.1. But I think this drive would have come out as compatible with 9.1. Anybody know any different. Apple website is useless on this drive. Thanks Dave s900, XLR8 Carrier w/ OWC 450 G3 zif OS 9.1 -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
