[MacDV] Pioneer SuperDrive DVR-AO6

[Peter van der Linden]

On Jan 10, 2004, at 4:02 PM, chrisandheather at shaw.ca wrote:
> Anyone install one of these [Pioneer SuperDrive DVR-AO6] on their Blue 
> and White G3? Will it even work?

Apple currently sources two Superdrives, the Pioneer DVR-106 and the 
Sony DW-U10A.   If you can find out the difference between the 106 and 
the A06, you can tell what the chances for success are.  If the 
difference is just OEM vs retail, it will be fine. But if Apple 
modified the firmware, then you will find that hard to replicate.

You could try buying a firewire case with controller and putting the 
DVD burner into that.  It's still not guaranteed, but I think this may 
well work even if the first alternative doesn't.

If the problem is that the iLife apps won't work with it, you may be 
able to use Toast with it instead (and write the DVDs to disk, then 
Toast the disk to DVD).

     Peter