[JimiMac]

Amazingly, I bought a Lacie CD-R burner on ebay for my mom and dad's iBook dual 500, and it "plug and play" works! Only thing is, I'm using old 8X speed CDs, and if I set the burn speed to "Maximum Possible", the CDs don't burn correctly. If I set iTunes, for example, to burn at under 8X, the burn works fine, but noticed that in the Finder, if I'm burning a disk from there, it doesn't let me choose any slower speed than "Maximum Possible"...all the other speeds are grayed out. Anyway around this, or should I just go out and buy faster blank CDs? What speed CDs are the most common and work best now? 24x?

[Zoom]

Originally posted by JimiMac:
What speed CDs are the most common and work best now? 24x?

All modern CDR blanks are at least 40x, most are 48x or "52x" or whatever the max is.

Not sure why slower blanks wouldn't work, though. How old are they? Have they been exposed to heat or sunlight?

As for "fast as possible", I think the blanks can report their max speed so that this setting works correctly, but maybe that's a newer thing. I know I was able to burn older CDRs at higher-than-rated speeds, but I don't know why.

[Grrr]

I wonder if this might be a bug in OS X.2? There was a post or two about a very similar sounding problem in the OS X forum a few weeks ago.
Indeed, i also have an 8X FireWire burner(Que QPS) .. And if an app will let me burn at 8X, it usually fails with an error. So, 6X it is.. Thought maybe my burner was dying. But apparently not??