On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 07:28:34PM -0600, Mike Strawn wrote: : : I recently purchased a Pioneer DVD-R 105 drive from Other World Computing to : burn DVD¹s on my G3. My problem is that I¹ve wasted 20 disks with only 2 : successful burns. The drive appears to function properly, but at various : points in the process I get a ³Sense key error² and the burn fails. I¹m : running Panther (10.3.5) using XpostFacto on a G3 that has a G4 500 Mhz ZIF : chip. I¹ve tried using Toast and the Apple burn software at 2x, 1x and 4x : and nothing works with any consistency. The Apple System Profiler recognizes : the drive, so that¹s a mystery. I¹ve tried cheap and expensive media. : Anybody had a similar problem? If so, please help! The drive may not like your brand of DVD-R media. Try other brands and see if the sense key errors stay consistent, decrease, or even disappear. -- Eugene Lee http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/