[CUBE] CD-RW help

[Brett Pearce]

On Jun 26, 2004, at 9:29 AM, Sean Terrill wrote:

> Quoth Christopher Hack (cjhack at onetel.net.uk) at 26/06/2004 11:15 AM:
>
>> Dear cubeistes, I need help with a CD-RW, and would much appreciate 
>> anything
>> you can suggest. I ordered a CD-RW drive from a company called 
>> Fastmac.
>> However now it has arrived, I have installed it, and the cube cannot 
>> see the
>> drive (eg, not appearing in Apple System profiler. The connections 
>> seemed
>> pretty loose, and I have tried to push them in tighter, but it does 
>> not make
>> much difference. Fastmac sent me some OSX disks, but as I have OSX 
>> 10.2.8
>> already installed I can't see how using these would help (would it?). 
>> I have
>> emailed Fastmac for some help, and heard nothing.
>> So first question  is can anyone suggest anyway to make this drive 
>> work.
>> Second, assuming this will not work (I must say it is much cheaper 
>> looking
>> than the OEM drive) Can anyone suggest a good source for a slid 
>> reliable
>> CD-RW drive for my beloved cube, which will work immediately, and do 
>> a good
>> job. Much much appreciate in advance any help. Chris
>
> Chris, try setting the jumpers on your hard drive to Slave if it's 
> currently
> Master or vice versa. There may be a diagram near the jumpers 
> illustrating
> the settings, if not check the manufacturer's website.
>

I got a DVD-RW from OWC with instructions to do exactly that - set the 
hard drive to slave.

Also, to get it to work with iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD,... I had to download 
a utility called Patchburn II.

Brett