[MacDV] Pioneer DVD Burner 106D Problems

[Peter Tattersall]

On 13-Oct-04, at 3:30 PM, Marilyn Cristiano wrote:

> Here is my problem. 
>
>  I successfully burned a five-minute iMovie in iDVD with a built-in 
> Pioneer 106D DVD burner.
>
>  I also tried to burn a 25 to 30 minute iMovie in iDVD and received 
> the following messages after about three hours:
>
>  First message:  Errors were found during the burning process:  
> Recording engine:  Device failed to respond properly, unable to 
> recover or retry.
>
>  I clicked ok and received the second message as follows:
>
>  Your Macintosh does not have a supported Superdrive.  Please note 
> that while you will be able to work with iDVD projects, you will not 
> be able to burn a DVD disc.
>
>  Here are the specifications for my Power Mac G4:
>
>  Mac OSX Version 10.2.8
>
>  Memory 1.06 GB
>
>  Processor:  1 GHz
>
>  Bus speed:  100 Mhz
>
>  L2 cache size 256K
>
>  L3 cache size 2MB
>
>  Machine Model:  Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics) (version = 2.1)
>
>  Boot ROM info:  4.2.8f1
>
>  OHHHH, this is what I found under Devices and Volumes, CD-RW/DVD-R
>
>  Disc Burning                             Not supported
>
>  Unit Number                              0
>
>  ATA Device Type                      atapi
>
>  Device Serial                             CLDC446344WL
>
>  Device Revision                        1.07
>
>  Product Identification                 DVD-RW  DVR-106D
>
>  Vendor Identification                  PIONEER
>
>  I wonder why it says Disc Burning "Not Supported."
>
>  Any help you all can give me would be greatly appreciated!
>
>  Thank you!
>
>  Marilyn

That's an upgraded drive, and it's always a risk when you upgrade - you 
may find that the drive is not fully supported. While Mac OS 10.2.8 is 
supposed to support the 106D, it may not, depending on the path you 
took to reach that version of the operating system. In addition, a 
small number of Pioneer 106D's are not compatible with Macs because 
their firmware is very slightly different from that in other examples 
of the same model. In your case, though, the firmware looks ok (the 
product id says DVD-RW while in unsupported models the id says DVD RW, 
without the hyphen).

You might try patchburn 
<http://www.macwelt.de/magazin/0310/PatchBurn1.1en.sit> (at your own 
risk!) or check out the FAQ at
http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/faq.lasso and read the DVD FAQs on the 
DVR-106D/DVR-A06