[G4] Can my G4 use DVD-R disks?

[sr ferenczy]

your dvd-ram is (i believe) a Matshita LFD-110 its an older drive (only  
2.6 GB dvd-ram disks, right?) and according to this site

http://www.dvdplusrw.org/resources/compatibilitylist_dvdrom.html

it is incompatible with dvd+r/w... i havent been able to find any  
information on dvd-r yet, but i would assume it is most likely not  
compatible

..but pioneer dvd-ram drives have been compatible with dvd-r standards  
since 1997..... hmmmm this is a tough one...

ah, in a press release from 1998, laCie announced shipment of dvd-ram  
drives that were, in addition to many other media, dvd-r compatible...

perhaps a firmware update, such as this,

http://perso.club-internet.fr/farzeno/dvds/LFD110A120.sit

might help...

ah well,

peace
sandor

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 08:09  PM, Vicki Schalin wrote:

>>  > I have a G4, 500 Mhz, AGP (winter 2000) with a drive that can read
>>>  CDs and read&write to DVD-RAM. I recently tested a DVD-R that a
>>>  friend of mine burnt but that disk wouldn't show at all in the
>>>  finder. It refused to mount.
>>>
>>>  So, can my computer read any DVD-R at all, or was it just something
>>>  wrong with this disk?
>>>
>>>  I haven't tested this before because I have never had any DVD-R
>>>  before, just regular DVDs bought in stores.
>>>
>>>  This is my mac-model:
>>>
>> http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/stats/ 
>> powermac_g4_500.html
>
>> Go to your utilities folder and run system profiler; what does it  
>> tell you
>> about your CD drive? (note: Clicking the triangle next to it's name  
>> will
>> give you loads of information.)
>
>
>
> Thank you, I forgot that. But I'm not that much cleverer now:
>
> DVD-RAM-unit
> unit number	0
> ata device type	atapi
> device serial	                   device revision	A105
> Product Identification	PD-2 LF-D110
>
> It still is unclear to me if this will read DVD-R.
>
> And to clarify to some other persons who answered my question: DVD-RAM  
> is _not_ the same as normal DVDs. I cant burn DVDs, just read and  
> write to DVD-RAM. These things comes in plastic shells, much like  
> large 1,4MB-discs of old (if you remember..:-). They do not fit into  
> DVD-players (unless you remove the plastics, but that's not  
> recomended) and they are really expensive. This is not a superdrive,  
> and I can't burn CDs.
>
> Doesn't anyone else have this kind of G4? Can you read DVD-R??
>
> / Vicki
> -- 
> Vicki Schalin