[CUBE] Reader reports MCE 2x DVD-R/DVD-RAM slotted Superdrive not supported in 10.3

[Laurie A Duncan]

FYI - OWC's drives are affected as well. Both companies are working on a
solution.

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On 10/27/03 2:19 PM, don.linares at verizon.net added a note to the human
symphony, when this was said:

> Reader reports MCE 2x DVD-R/DVD-RAM slotted Superdrive not supported in
> 10.3 - As mentioned before here when they started shipping, the MCE
> (Matshita) slotted 2x DVD-R + DVD-RAM superdrive for Powerbooks and
> Cubes required  custom/modified device-plugin file for iTunes, etc.
> burn support. A reader that upgraded to 10.3 just wrote that the drive
> is not supported.
> 
> " Hi Mike, You were kind enough to help me out a few months ago
> regarding a problem w/ my then newly installed (MCE slotted) DVD
> burner. I did receive the plug in from MCE, and everything worked great
> after I switched it out.
> When 10.2.8 came out, at first the problem resurfaced (wouldn't
> recognize the drive after the upgrade), but I just pulled out the old
> plug-in and (MatshitaCDR.device-plugin) - which appeared again after
> the OS upgrade, and replaced w/ the one sent from MCE
> (MCE2XDVDRCDR.device-plugin) and it worked fine.
> 
> Now that I've upgraded to 10.3 I expereinced the same problem, assumed
> I could just repeat the above process and be all set, but it doesn't
> work.  First off, the MatshitaCDR.device-plugin didn't reappear and
> reinserting the MCE... Plugin didn't do anything.
> Any thoughts, any of your other readers experiencing this problem?
> George "
> 
> Panther does not use the individual device-plugin files that
> 10.2.x/10.1.x did, mentioned in this article back in June here on
> Panther Burn Support/Mods . Unless a reader with this drive has any
> fixes, I'd contact MCE to ask if they are working on this and/or wait
> for a 10.3 compatible version of PatchBurn.