[Sam I Am]

Since I've updated to OS 9.2.1 disc burner has worked with my LaCie firewire CDRW, which is great BUT... Since disc burner has started to work, toast can no longer find the drive on the firewire bus!! I was wondering if anybody has had any problems like this...

Thanks

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From Roxio's Web Site:

Toast 4 and Apple Disc Burner
Q. Are Toast 4 and Apple Disc Burner compatible?
A. No, I'm sorry but Toast 4.x and Apple Disc Burner are incompatible. Toast 4 extensions severely conflict with Disc Burner extensions.

Toast 5 and Apple Disc Burner
Q. Are Toast 5 and Apple Disc Burner compatible?
A. No, I'm sorry but Toast 5 and Apple Disc Burner are incompatible. Toast 5 extensions also severely conflict with Disc Burner extensions. However, Roxio will release an update, 5.0.1, to provide compatibility.

Q. Why do I need Toast if I have Apple Disc Burner?
A. Apple Disc Burner provides a very basic method of burning data to CDs burning. If all you want to do is store data on CDs and you are running Mac OS 9.1 and you have a supported drive, Disc Burner may be all you need. Toast gives you a lot more power and control over the CDs you burn, yet Toast is extremely easy to use. Toast has been the de facto standard and premiere CD mastering tool for Macintosh for over eight years. Toast supports more Macs, more OS versions, more CD formats, and more CD recorders than Disc Burner.

Q. What does Toast do that Disc Burner can't?
A. Unlike Disc Burner, Toast writes CDs in a hybrid (HFS/ISSO9660/Joliet) format. This means file names will not be corrupted when read on Windows PCs or UNIX systems. In addition Toast supports formats that Disc Burner does not support: bootable CDs, multi-session CDs, Enhanced CDs, etc.

Q. Does Disc Burner require more resources than Toast?
A. Yes. since Disc Burner copies all data three times (twice to hard disk and then once to CD), Disc Burner requires about 1.3GB of temporary HD space for a full CD. Since Toast burns directly to CD, it doesn't require any temporary disk space.

Q. Can Toast burn CDs faster than Disc Burner?
A. Yes. In one test burning 5000 files, approximately 200 MB, Toast was nearly twice as fast as Disc Burner. (13 minutes with Disc Burner versus 7 minutes with Toast 5 Titanium).

So you'll either need to update your Toast Titanium if you have it, or replace your current version of Toast with Toast Ti...

[Sam I Am]

Thanks for the answer! Disc burner is gone...

[CRASH HARDDRIVE]

Get the Toast 5.0.2 update if you have Toast 5. Also update to Apple Authoring Support 1.1.3. (Check in the iTunes 2.2 folder if you have an iDisk or get it from Apple's site).

I've had both Disk Burner and Toast 5.0.1 working fine together for some time, but I always hated that Disk Burner would hog blank media being inserted, so if you intended to use Toast, you had to either eject the disk and open Toast first, or use Disk Burner (which I sort of hate.. it takes up to 3x as long to burn a CD with it thanks to the goofy copy-before-you-copy nonsense.)

At any rate, with Toast 5.0.2 and A.S. 1.1.3 Toast and Disk Burner peacefully co-exist, so D.B can stay. The dial box that pops up gives you the choice of opening up Toast for you, or preparing the disk for Disk Burner.