[G4] DVD Drive help

[Daniel Brieck Jr.]

Davis,

Yes go with the deals from  newegg.com and get the Pioneer DVR DVD  
burner. I bought the Pioneer DVR -109  for my computer and used the  
drive fine with patchburn installed under mac os 10.3, but now in  
10.4 the drive is completely supported and I no longer needed  
parchburn. Note that  apple uses the DVR-109 and other pioneer drives  
in there computers, so they are most definitely compatible with  
macs.  In your situation you would just have to install patchburn to  
get it to burn, which was a painless process.

http://www.patchburn.de/


Daniel J. Brieck Jr.



On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Steve Goldstein wrote:

> I have always used the Pioneer series BECAUSE THEY WORK  with  
> Macs.  I have a Quicksilver, and it works even with 10.4.3.  I  
> patronize newegg.com,a VERY reliable vendor, where you can buy one  
> in beige or black for about $40:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp? 
> Submit=Go&DEPA=0&type=&description=Pioneer 
> +DVR-110&Category=0&minPrice=&maxPrice=&Go.x=0&Go.y=0
>
> Note that I have the 110 in my Quicksilver now.
>
> --Steve
>
>
>
>
> At 6:53 AM -0500 11/18/05, Davis Gaffga wrote:
>> 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.