[MacDV] Re: Pioneer dvr-105 and IDVD

[Thubten Kunga]

1. Yes
2. Yes. ADS is good. Most of them are fine.

500 Mhz is plenty of guts to burn super slow optical anything. I do it 
with a 550 MHz G4 upgrade in a B&W. Also, just so you know, you can 
hack both the DVD-RAM and the 105 inside any old Tower. I have both 
inside my old B&W.

Kunga

On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 01:26  PM, Jim Soriano wrote:

> I'm a list DV newbie (with a G4-500 (Sawtooth) running 10.2.3 in 1.5GB 
> RAM), so apologies in advance for beating this topic to death.  Just 
> to make it clear, can I...
>
> 1.  Remove my original internal DVD-RAM drive and replace it with one 
> of these cool IDE internal Pioneer DVR-105 DVD-R/RW drives (like the 
> Cendyne 2x4x8 advertised at Staples) and have it work with iDVD? and 
> then...
>
> 2.  Take the DVD-RAM drive and put it in sombody's (who do you all 
> recommend?) external case that has an integral IDE-to-FireWire 
> converter and then use my DVD-RAM externally hanging off of FireWire?
>
> Does anybody have experience running iDVD with a G4-500 to a DVR-104 
> or 105?  Does the 500MHz CPU have enough guts for a clean burn?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim