[MacDV] Installing Pioneer AO5 in G4 FW800

[Erick Camp]

On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 08:46 PM, Fabian Ius wrote:

> Question...
> I am assuming that the combo drive is in "Master" mode and that I 
> should set the A05 to "Slave"...
> Correct ?
> Anything else I need to be aware of when I open up the G4 and install 
> the burner?

Fabian:

If your G4 1.25 is like the Dual 1.4  I just purchased, then you should 
be using "cable select" on the burner.  Cable select "knows" where the 
drive is "on the cable" and sets the mechanism automatically to the 
proper "master/slave" setting.

I have found that on my Dual 1.4 machine with superdrive, even though I 
installed a second A05 in the optical drive case (I actually ended up 
switching the Apple A05 superdrive from master position  and put my 
Cenedyne A05 in that slot) iDVD3 only recognizes the Apple A05, even 
though it is now in the cable select slave position.  System profiler 
reports both drives as A05s.

I just received DVD SP1.5 (Love Apple dropping the price and giving the 
upgrade to SP2.0!) and I am hoping that DVD SP will see both drives  -- 
otherwise I think I will have to find some means to flash the Cenedyne 
A05 to the same PROM rev level?

Erick Camp
2 Penguins Studios