[MacDV] $170 Pioneer DVR-105 NOT Working With iDVD 2.1 Inside 500 MHz Blue & White G3

[Gerhard Kuhn]

I think iDVD would need a G4 since Apple never installed the superdrive 
in a G3 and the program was not meant to be backward compatible.


On Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 10:58  PM, Thubten Kunga wrote:

> B&W G3 with 10.2.3 Pioneer DVR-105 as Master with 1999 DVD-RAM as Slave 
> on the same optical bus.
>
> I bought a pair of Tin Snips and hacked both into the B&W after cutting 
> and bending a lot of metal. Both drives working great. Except 105 can't 
> read DVD-RAM written single sided media although my Cube's DVD-ROM 
> player reads those same DVD-RAMs just fine. Anyway . . .
>
> iDVD 2.0 works just fine. Ran 2.1 updater and then 2.1 at launch says 
> "iDVD could not be opened because the required hardware could not be 
> found". Anybody know the work around or does 2.1 require G4 or what?
>
> Someone mentioned about having to reinstall the system but I never ran 
> iDVD before on this system. What's the difference between 2.0 and 2.1? 
> Do I have to take the DVD-ROM off this bus or what? Is it about the G3 
> vs. a G4 or what?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Kunga
>
>
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Gerhard Kuhn
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