[G4] Adding a Sony DVD drive

[Robert Meadors]

Here is a link to an article.

http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/03/06.4.shtml

HTH

Chris
On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 08:06  AM, sr ferenczy wrote:

> any idea of what the sony product number is for the exact drives apple 
> uses? it is quite possible that the drives could easily be flashed 
> with new firmware from sony to bring it up to the full capabilities of 
> the drives. i know with the pioneer drives this was quite possible, 
> and while it no longer appeared as a "superdrive" it was still 
> compatible with all apple software.
>
> sandor
>
> On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 11:00  AM, Robert Meadors wrote:
>
>> *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
>>