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Poitco - Jun 30, 2005 - 2:42 am
Running OS 10.3.9, Quicksilver, 1.5 gig ram. Replaced Superdrive with a Pioneer DVR-109, flashed to version 1.50. Can NOT complete burning a DVD-R in either iMovie/iDVD 5, DVD Studio Pro 3 or Toast 6.0.7. With Patchburn, profilier states "Vender Supported". Have re-installed Patchburn 3.1.1 and the same thing. I tried a clean install of Tiger with update and many of the programs started crashing, Went back to OS 10.3.9 and all ok execpt DVD burning.Please advise and THANKS for the help!!
Rod Hagen - Jun 30, 2005 - 5:02 am
G'day James.
I have a Pioneer DVR-109 in an external FW case which has run fine under both Panther and Tiger (with Patchburn drivers installed) and in Toast Titanium) (5.07 with Panther and , with the 6.1 update under Tiger).
It originally came with firmware 1.14 , was updated to 1.50 and now has 1.55, and worked well with all of them when attached to my PB12 G4 and to my iMac G5.
So clearly the problem is not any sort of fundamental drive incompatability.
So what possibilities do we have? You don't say exactly HOW the burn is failing. Is it hanging part way through, or failing during verification etc
1) an installation problem. Is it set up with the correcte jumper configuration?. Some people have variously repoorted having to have it configured as "master" or "cable select" when used in the upper drive bay on G4's or as slave or cable select when fitted in the lower bay.
2) Media. What brand and type of DVD are you using? I'd try a good 8x DVR+R single layer disc (maybe TDK or Verbatim) for testing purposes.
3) Burn speed? Some older macs are only capable of burn speeds up to 8x or 12x . Try setting a lower, fixed, burn speed rather than using "Best" in Toast and see what happens
4) A problem with what you are burning FROM. A corrupt or badly fragmented HD can cause major burning problems. So can faulty permissions etc. Run DiskUtility and make sure the drive is fine. Make sure there is plenty of free space on it too. Hard Drives that have got down to their last few gigs can have badly fragmented free space, causing all sorts of problems when burning DVD's.
Cheers
Rod
I have a Pioneer DVR-109 in an external FW case which has run fine under both Panther and Tiger (with Patchburn drivers installed) and in Toast Titanium) (5.07 with Panther and , with the 6.1 update under Tiger).
It originally came with firmware 1.14 , was updated to 1.50 and now has 1.55, and worked well with all of them when attached to my PB12 G4 and to my iMac G5.
So clearly the problem is not any sort of fundamental drive incompatability.
So what possibilities do we have? You don't say exactly HOW the burn is failing. Is it hanging part way through, or failing during verification etc
1) an installation problem. Is it set up with the correcte jumper configuration?. Some people have variously repoorted having to have it configured as "master" or "cable select" when used in the upper drive bay on G4's or as slave or cable select when fitted in the lower bay.
2) Media. What brand and type of DVD are you using? I'd try a good 8x DVR+R single layer disc (maybe TDK or Verbatim) for testing purposes.
3) Burn speed? Some older macs are only capable of burn speeds up to 8x or 12x . Try setting a lower, fixed, burn speed rather than using "Best" in Toast and see what happens
4) A problem with what you are burning FROM. A corrupt or badly fragmented HD can cause major burning problems. So can faulty permissions etc. Run DiskUtility and make sure the drive is fine. Make sure there is plenty of free space on it too. Hard Drives that have got down to their last few gigs can have badly fragmented free space, causing all sorts of problems when burning DVD's.
Cheers
Rod
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