[MacDV] Re: Pioneer DVR-105 for $170

[Thubten Kunga]

External case will work just fine with DVD Studio Pro 1.5 and Toast 
5.2. But you won't be able to use iDVD 2.1 with an external. Only 
internal. Make sure you have 10.2.3 installed as that's the first 
system version to support this drive.

Kunga

On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 03:07  PM, Paul Russell wrote:

>> Very cool! Do have any info about the second part of my post?
>>
>
> No - I'd like to know the answer to that too (i.e. could you put this 
> drive in a FireWire enclosure and use it externally without losing any 
> functionality ?).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
> P.S. After my initial success I'm having some "issues" with the drive 
> now - I now get a kernel panic at boot with the drive connected 
> (although this didn't happen initially). I suspect I may need to 
> change a jumper on the drive, or it may just be that having the bare 
> drive sitting on top of the motherboard (with an empty DVD case for 
> insulation) is causing electrical and/or thermal problems. I'm hoping 
> that the OP (Sean Collins) will be back soon with more information on 
> how he installed his drive.