[MacDV] Re: Pioneer dvr-105 and IDVD

[lloyds]

The Cendyne 4x internal DV-R/RW drive is today (2/5) priced at close to $300 with no
rebate at the Staples website.  I ordered one on 1/30 at the lower price (including a
rebate), they accepted the order, but today, when I called to ask about its status, I
was told that it had been out of stock when I placed order and they had neglected to
tell me at the time.

BobLL

Thubten Kunga wrote:

> To answer your questions: No and Yes. You forgot to tell us which G4
> tower — 1999-2002 single 5.25" optical or the late 2002 MDD dual 5.25"
> optical model?
>
> Forget about using Pioneer DVD-RW drives outside your tower if you want
> to work with iDVD 3. Remove it from the case, which you can recycle
> with the optical drive you take out of an older tower or a large hard
> drive, and put it in as a MASTER drive while making the other MDD
> optical SLAVE (if appropriate). This will take you at most 5 minutes.
> Then buy iLife, install iDVD 3 and you will be good to go. Make sure
> you have installed the firmware patch for DVR-103 and DVR-104 drives to
> prevent burning them up if you use 4x rated media.
>
> For those of you who haven't heard — Pioneer DVR-105 4x burners go on
> sale a lot at Staples and Office Max for $200 or less after rebates
> hidden in a Maroon and Gold lettered white box labeled Cendyne (brand)
> 4x DVD-R/RW. You will see the model DVR-105 mentioned at the bottom of
> the spec list on the back of the box just above the bar codes. The 105
> (vs. A05) means it is missing the words "pioneer" on the faceplate.
>
> You can also retrofit two 5.25" optical in any Mac Tower since 1999. I
> have a DVD-RAM drive and the 105 inside my old B&W with a PowerLogix G4
> Zif running @550 MHz processor upgrade and iDVD 3.
>
> k
>
> On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 09:20  AM, Brendan Perreault wrote:
>
> > What if it was an internal drive put inside one of those Firewire case
> > kits?
> >
> > on 2/5/03 10:12 AM, Erica Sadun at erica at mindspring.com wrote:
> >
> >> At 9:08 AM -0600 2/5/03, Alan Lanning wrote:
> >>> Apparently this burner is the same as Apple is putting into its new
> >>> machines but is not recognized by iDVD when configured as an
> >>> external drive.  Two questions:  does anyone know of a code patch to
> >>> make iDVD work with the external burner and is it possible (easy) to
> >>> remove the drive from the external case and mount it into my G4
> >>> tower?  I have the EZQuest branded Poneer DVD.
> >>> Thanks
> >>
> >> iDVD doesn't "do" external drives.
> >>
> >> -- Erica
>
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