CD-R burning with external drive

[bhkreps]

I have a LaCie external CD-R drive (USB). I've been trying to burn CDs using Disk Copy in OS 10.2.6. Every time, the burning process gets hung up on "Finishing writing". I have to Force Quit Disk Copy, then turn off my CD drive and restart it before I can eject the coaster I have just made.

I don't know if this is a problem with my external drive, or with Disk Copy. Any suggestions?

[Arden]

Have you updated your firmware and drivers? See if you can do that first.

What kind of computer are you using? How much RAM does it have? What's the hard drive capacity? speed? How long have you waited before force quitting Disk Copy?

I suggest you look into using Toast Lite (if you can find it) or Toast Titanium. Toast Ti costs money up front, but it may help you save on CD-R's.

[bhkreps]

I've updated the firmware on my iMac. I haven't been able to find any updated driver -- LaCie's website doesn't show any.

I'm running an iMac Special Edition (Graphite), with 640MB RAM, with OS 10.2.6 on a LaCie 80GB Fire Wire drive.

I've waited as long as an hour-and-a-half before force-quitting Disk Copy.

Is Toast Lite a free program? I looked on Roxio's website, and it appeared they don't offer any OS X update for the version of Toast (4.1.1) that came with my CD drive.

[MikeXpop]

If you have a LaCie drive, it most likely came with Toast Lite. Mine did.

I have a firewire one though. Why are you using USB? Does it support both? If it does, I suggest using Firewire (if there is a Firewire router on the drive or the burner, there is on mine)

[Urbansory]

I think it's a USB issue, my Que does the same thing with Toast. It's really pain and shame to be forced into 9 to burn CDs. My fix is a new G4 soon.

[Arden]

Look through your collection of discs and see if you have CD burning software with Toast Lite on it.

I have been unsuccessful in finding Toast Lite for download online. Either they took it off, or they only offer it with burners.

[bhkreps]

The only version of Toast that came with my drive is 4.1.1, and my drive is USB-only. I can burn Audio and data CDs when booted in OS 9, but that's not a big help right now.

I've been trying to create a bootable CD for OS X. I've found what purports to be a workable method to do this using Disk Copy in OS X, but the OS 9 version of Disk Copy doesn't seem to have the same options.

Any pointers for creating bootable CDs?