[Ti] iDVD question and WARNING

[Ric Perrott]

On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 11:45  AM, b wrote:

> According to Dave:
>
>> I've only had my TiBook 800 w/Combo drive for 6-7 months so this 
>> might have
>> been covered to death before, however I haven't been able to find the 
>> info
>> in web searches. I read somewhere that there used to be a workaround 
>> to the
>> fact that I can't burn a DVD to an external FW DVD burner (LaCie 
>> w/Pioneer
>> A03 drive) and that Apple made this patch "go away". Was this 
>> originally
>> some kind of software application, bios update or "hack"? I wanted to 
>> start
>> using iDVD to burn stuff but I don't have to resources to trash my 
>> Combo
>> drive and buy a Superdrive....especially when I already own the LaCie.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> p.s. please forgive me if this question appears twice....I'm still a 
>> little
>> bit of a newbie
>
> Don't trash anything Dave, the software patch came from Other World 
> Computing, I'll send it as an attachment, off-list
>
> ~flipper
>
> It was called DVD Enable X and was a 236 kb patch to right a 'wrong'

Please be aware that this patch WILL NOT WORK in OS X 10.2 or above.

This patch will only work in OS X 10.1.x and then again ONLY with iDVD2.

So if you never want to run Jaguar or use iDVD3, then go for it. 
Doesn't seem worth it to me.

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