Last night I picked up an external Firewire/USB enclosure and installed a Pioneer A05U DVD-R(W) burner into it. Hooked it up to my S900's VST Firewire/USB card and here are the results:
1) Toast Titanium v5.1.3 and Jam v2.5 recognized it right off the bat. 2) A burned DVD-R with data on it mounted on the desktop immediately. 3) Retrospect Express v4.2 doesn't see it; I may try v4.3 w/newer drivers to see if that does it, although the Dantz site info is a little unclear on whether this will work or not. 4) I can't get Apple DVD Player v2.7 to work. I have followed the instructions to the "T" on "OS9 Forever" site - used TomeViewer to extract all of the components, put the extensions in the system folder, rebooted the computer, and ran the Apple DVD Patcher. When I try to launch Apple DVD Player, it comes up with the message "Apple DVD Player cannot find software it needs. Try reinstalling Apple DVD Player (201)". I did try doing the reinstall a couple of times with no luck. Anyone have an idea what software component(s) might be missing? I understand that Apple DVD Player may be slow and clunky on my machine (if I can get it to work), but the main reason I bought the DVD burner was to work with DVD Studio Pro, and it needs the Player to preview. Other alternatives? S900 w/NewerTech G4-400Mhz processor OS9.1 784 Mb RAM Slot 1: Initio Miles UW SCSI card Slot 2: VST Firewire/USB card Slot 3: ATI VR128 16Mb video card Slot 4: Digidesign AudioMedia III card Slot 5: Digidesign Samplecell II card Slot 6: Empty -- Gregg -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
