If you insert a blank disk then the built in Apple Disk burning software is trying to work with the disk and finding that the drive attached is unsupported however the drive is supported by toast so by effectively letting toast take charge of the whole procedure you are circumventing disk burner. You can open the CD's and DVD's preference pane and make the default action when inserting a blank CD to open Toast. Either that or if you are feeling adventurous you could look at xlr8yourmac.com and work out how too modify a system file so that your drive is supported by apple disk burning. This would have the added advantage of letting your drive burn CD's directly from iTunes and iPhoto. This procedure has the ability to do bad things to your computer so you should only attempt it if you feel confident. I wouldn't bother unless you desperately want your burner to work with built in disk burning. Cheers Rob
As to how I knew that was the problem, I troubleshoot computers all day every day so stuff like this just gets lodged in your head and stored. Seen it once remember it for next time :)) glad I could help. > From: Jon Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:25:03 +0800 > To: "WAMUG Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Fwd: Roxio Toast problem > > Very interesting technique Rob, How did you stumble across that one? > works perfectly! how does this work then and is it what I will have to > do all the time? > Thanks again for your response. > Cheers > Jon > > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Rob Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 19 February 2004 8:01:01 AM >> To: "WAMUG Mailing List" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Roxio Toast problem >> >> It sounds like disk burner is wanting to prepare the disk but that the >> drive >> is not supported by apple disk burning. What happens if you drag some >> files >> to the Toast data window then hit burn and then insert a blank CD? >>
