[MacDV] Re: Burning Speeds

[Puget Sound Cinema Society]

Mark,

Again, I recommend PatchBurn 3 (since you're using Panther). Apple is 
unlikely to do anything about it themselves.

"PatchBurn is a tool to patch existing CD/DVD-drivers (under Mac-OS X 
10.2.x) or to generate and install new device profiles (under Mac-OS 
10.3.x and later). It allows many, otherwise unsupported burners to be 
used directly with Mac OS X, iTunes and DiscBurner. It has given life 
to my (otherwise unsupported) external SONY DVD-/+RW drive and so it 
comes recommended. PatchBurn is harmless, as all it does is create a 
new description profile for the drive so OSX knows how to deal with it. 
"

http://www.patchburn.de

More info at xlr8yourmac.com, if you don't trust my authority.


Cheers,
Omar Willey


On Saturday, October 9, 2004, at 01:01 AM, 
macdv-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:

> Please do.  I was having problems with mine last night, but I don't 
> know if
> it was the drive or the hacked install of Panther I was running on a 
> Beige
> G3.  iTunes didn't recognize it for burning, and discs wouldn't mount, 
> or if
> they did, they had problems reading.  I doubt it is the actual drive,
> because it burned a couple of discs fine using Toast Ti 5 under OS 9 
> on that
> same (ancient) machine.  I was thinking of putting it in a FireWire 
> case to
> use with my new iBook anyway, so that may be the way to go.
>
> Maybe we gotta wait for Apple to update Panther and/or the iApps to 
> work
> properly with this drive?  I didn't have a chance to try Toast Ti 6 
> yet, and
> I'm going to see if it works properly in my G4 at work...  Maybe the 
> drive
> had some kind of freak out and died...  That would suck...
>
> Ain't new technology fun?  :-P
>
> - Mark
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