[G4] MDD Combo CD and Toast

[Mel Krewall]

 From what you describe, why would you even approach AppleCare with this 
problem? It's obviously a Toast issue, so you should report it to 
Roxio. Have you been able to try it with Toast 6?
Mel


"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are 
still rolling."
  ~ Mark Twain


On Nov 18, 2003, at 1:25 PM, Charles Turner wrote:

> Here's an unexpected problem with Toast 5.2.1 and the Phillips CDD5101 
> combo CD/DVD drive in my MDD G4 dual 867 system.
>
> When Toast burns an audio CD, only the first eight tracks can be 
> played back on a conventional (not a computer) audio CD player. When 
> trying to play tracks 9 or beyond, the audio player seems just to 
> wander and never find the track.
>
> Searching around with Google I found a comment that the CDD5101 has 
> problems with "disk at once" (DAO) mode. I couldn't figure out how to 
> turn DAO mode off in Toast. The preference setting "prefer DAO" can be 
> unchecked but Toast still says it's using DAO when it actually burns 
> the CD.
>
> However, when iTunes burns this same audio CD the resulting disk is 
> perfectly compatible with the audio CD player. I've tried this 
> experiment under OS9.2 and under Panther with the same results: 
> Toast=bad, iTunes=good.
>
> This same Toast, same system, when using my external Firewire CD-RW 
> (Yahama drive) creates a good disk.
>
> I noticed that the sound of the CD drive spinning is different when 
> burning with Toast versus iTunes. With iTunes I hear the drive speed 
> up and slow down a number of times. Maybe this indicates that iTunes 
> is using track-at-once (TAO).
>
> Apple Care may not want to hear about my problem with Toast since 
> iTunes works OK.
>
> The Phillips www support site has firmware updates for this drive, but 
> wouldn't you know, they are only packaged for PC installation (.exe). 
> I couldn't find any mention of firmware updates for this drive on 
> Apple's support www.
>
>
> -ct
>
>
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