[G4] DVD Drive help

[Aaron]

>Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 06:53:59 -0500
>From: Davis Gaffga <dgaffga at optonline.net>
>To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>Subject: [G4] DVD Drive help
>
>I am using a Mac Quick Silver with System 10.3.9. I am in need of what a guess is called a super drive. What I need to do is burn DVD's to back up my photo projects (same as I do now with CD's but I do need the extra size that DVD's offer). I planned to get the Pioneer DVD-110D Internal DVD±RW ($69.95 @ MacMall). When I called to order it I was told that MacMall advises getting the MCE Internal DVD±R/RW drive at $99.95 because it is guaranteed to be Mac compatible and the Pioneer one is not. Is that sales BS in order to get me to spend the extra $30.00 as sales guy worked hard at discouraging me from buying the Pioneer unit, so I purchased neither. Also, am I going to have to purchase additional software such as Toast in order to use the drive or does system 10.3.9 recognize that one has a DVD burner installed.
>  Davis..

I refer you, Davis, to the following suggestion made in another thread. It seems to be working for me so far. (I haven't tested all functions yet.)

At 20:22 -0500 2005/11/16, Steve Goldstein wrote:
>Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:22:11 -0500
>To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>From: Steve Goldstein <sng at cox.net>
>Subject: Re: [G4] Liteon's New Dual Layer 16x DVD +/- R and +/- RW  Drive
>
>Try installing PatchBurn:
>
>http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/25100
>
>
>At 4:34 PM -0800 11/16/05, Aaron wrote:
>>I only have limited experience with the drive in this machine, but i can report the following:
>>
> >Running X.3.9, when I insert a blank disk in the machine, even if the program in the foreground (e.g., Disk Utility or Toast 5.2.3 Titanium) starts to recognize it, something in the system jumps in with the message, "The disc could not be used because the disc drive is not supported." and proceeds to eject the disk.

P.S. Thanks to Steve for the very useful suggestion!