[G4] Adding a Sony DVD drive

[Robert Meadors]

*Some* of the new machines DO have the new Sony drive that does it all. 
It seems as though the drives have their + features stripped from them. 
I don't know if it is by software or firmware though. I don't remember 
where I read it though.

Chris

On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 04:42  AM, sr ferenczy wrote:

> as far as i know, apple is still using the pioneer drives as the 
> "superdrive" in the powermacs. i believe it is now the A05/105 drive 
> (4x dvd-r burning) now, apple doesnt list the superdrive as supporting 
> dvd-rw, but this is NOT dvd+rw. apple does not disable the dvd-rw, 
> they just refuse to advertise it for some reason (i forget the true 
> details, but i think you might need a 3rd party burning 
> utility->toast, etc<- to burn dvd-rw..)
>
> peace
> sandor
>
> On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 03:34  AM, David Crandon wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I know that the new Macs use a Sony "universal" DVD R drive. I have
>> heard that Apple disables the DVD+R/W part of the drive though.
>>
>> Has anyone found a way to enable that part of the drive? Is is 
>> possible
>> to buy the same Sony universal drive elsewhere (for a second drive) 
>> and
>> be able to use all formats?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David Crandon