DVR-105 & OS X support (was Office Max CenDyne/Pioneer DVD Burner)

[Sean Collins]

Just to clear up some misconceptions here, neither the DVR-105 or 104 
is "technically" supported in ANY version of OS X, but they work 
fine.  I have full 105 support in 10.2.2.

If you examine the code in the PioneerCDR.device-plugin for any 
version of Jaguar, you'll see that the ONLY DVD-R drive listed is the 
DVR-103.  The reason being that all 3 drives (103,104,105) are 
functionally the same, simply upgraded for speed.  Thus no reason to 
change the controlling code.

It's up to the drive itself to detect media and adjust itself 
accordingly.  My guess is that's why Pioneer had to produce firmware 
patches when 4x media first appeared.  Older drives would attempt to 
burn at 4x, and fail.  The patched drives are now self-limiting to 2x.

As an aside, the 2x speed is proprietary to Pioneer, and the 104/105 
will burn non-rated (1x) media at 2x.  I do it regularly.

>I'm using a 105 in 10.1.5...burns fine with Toast and iDVD 2.1.
>Jaguar on order...
>
>  >Yes that's right 10.2.3 is the first version that supports the
>  >DVR-105 and that's the one I'm using.