I went through the same thing when I bought a Pioneer DVDR 105 same as yours without the DVD + R&+RW just one model older. I also hooked to a Sonnet ATA 66 card same results. If there is a way to get it to work I doen't know what it is! Some CDRW's do work with this card and I also think I've heard of a few DVD RW that work but few is the key word. Great card otherwise and your not likely to see any more speed with the ATA133. The fastest tested IDE hard drive tested recently at one site tops out at 64 mb's sec! So this speed thing is a marketing trick and has no basis in fact!From: Bob Robeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:07:27 -0800 Hi all,
I've been away for a while, but I know where to come when I get one of those tough tech questions. Here's mine:
I just bought one of those Pioneer DVR-106 burners from OWC for $159. I hooked the drive up to my Sonnet Tempo ATA66 card. The drive spun up fine, mounted a CD and played music, it also mounted a DVD disk. The problem came when I asked it to burn a CD and it instantly spit out an error code
Sense Key = Hardware Error Sense Code = 0x08, 0x03 Logical Unit Command Failure
I tried 4 different types of CD media. I upgraded my Roxio Toast from 5.0 to 5.2.1. I called Pioneer tech support and they said they didn't know about Macs, but if that was a PC giving those codes they would tell me to adjust the transfer rates. OWC tech support said that the Sonnet Tempo was quirky like that and would work as far as reading went, but wouldn't let the drive burn. I'm wondering if there is a way to make it work with the Sonnet Tempo ATA66.
Otherwise, the OWC tech support guy said I could upgrade my PCI card to an ATA133 and the Pioneer burner would work with that or he could sell me a firewire box kit that I could put the drive into and connect it to my firewire card. Both upgrade items, he said, could be carried forward to a modern G5 if I went that route in the future.
Bob Robeson
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I went with an ADS firewire external box seemed like a good idea and I'd been wanting to checkout firewire. If Apple system profiler sees your card it will likely work. Firewire even more then USB most cards work in either platform.The drive is seen as an Pioneer/Apple Superdrive(Pioneer makes most but not all of the DVD drives Apple has installed) in both OS 9.x and OSX! In OS 9.x Apple DVD player works fine and so does Toast. There were some tricks to getting DVD player to install in both OS 9 and OSX. In OSX I also needed a hack to get Apple DVD player to work with an external drive. In Panther OSX 10.3 Apple DVD Player v4.0 and iTunes install and work with no tricks needed! The one thing that doesn't work with this setup is iDVD. It is no go with the firewire drive. An app was made which worked with 10.1 (for OWC's new external firewire/Pioneer DVD drive)and sold for a week tops before Apple legal shut it down with threats of pulling OWC's Apple license . Apple even demanded the source code be destroyed. So that was the end of that. Amazing but no hacker has been able to get it to work...with 10.2 plus.
Knowing what I do now...I'd likely go with the ATA 133 card. The Pioneer drive will be seen as a native Apple superdrive and every thing will work including iDVD. The Sonnet ATA 66(Acard) is a great card except for this one flaw. You should be able to sell it for say $40-50. range. The ATA 133 Acard/ SIIG card will also work in any PCI slot just like the Sonnet ATA 66 card. The Sonnet ATA 133 card needs PCI slot 1 or 2 and when you go to OSX has the limit of installing OSX in the first 8GB of the hard drive. If the Acard/SIIG works with the pioneer drive and I think it does that's the one I'd buy. Best of luck and let us know if anyone knows how to get the drive to work with the ATA 66 card. Will S
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