[MacDV] Re: Pioneer dvr-105 and IDVD

[Mark M. Florida]

Warning about the ADS FireWire cases -- they don't support optical 
drives by default (at least not DVD-RAM drives).

I had the intention to do the exact thing Jim Soriano mentioned in his 
recent post -- I wanted to install a new Pioneer drive internally in my 
G4/500 at work and put the factory DVD-RAM drive in an ADS FireWire 
case.  It didn't work.  I returned the first ADS case because I thought 
it was defective.  When I got the second one and it *still* didn't 
work, I called ADS support and they basically said "yeah, those don't 
work with optical drives unless you can flash the firmware from a PC", 
of which there are none here (at work) with a FireWire card, and the 
PCs that we *do* have are highly-used (can't get access to for 
something like this anyway).  ADS offered for me to send it to them so 
*they* could flash it, but then I would be stuck with it as an optical 
drive (DVD-RAM) case, so I wouldn't be able to install a hard drive 
later on if I wanted...  So now I have a Pioneer DVR-104 installed in 
my G4/500, an empty ADS FireWire case, and an orphaned DVD-RAM drive...

Just a heads-up.  If you get an external case for your DVD-RAM drive, 
talk to the *manufacturer* first to make sure it will work for your 
application.

Kunga, how'd you "hack" your BW G3 case to support two 5-1/4" optical 
drives?  I remember seeing some case mods for that somewhere on the 
'net a while back, but I don't have that info any more.

- Mark

On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 03:38  PM, Thubten Kunga wrote:

> 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
>
>
> ----------
> <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/MacDV.html>.
> Send a message to <MacDV-DIGEST at themacintoshguy.com> to switch to the 
> digest version.
>
> XRouter | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers! 
> Dr. Bott | Now $139.99      <http://www.drbott.com/prod/xrouter.html>
>
>   Cyberian   | Support this list when you buy at Outpost.com!
>   Outpost    |         http://www.themacintoshguy.com/outpost.shtml
>
> MacResQ Specials: LaCie SCSI CDR From $99! PowerBook 3400/200 Only 
> $879! Norton AntiVirus 6 Only $19! We Stock PARTS! 
> <http://www.macresq.com>
>