[Matthew Attoe]

Hi guys,


We have just bought a 104 in an external firewire case. The supplier also sourced us 20 DVD's which were Maxell 3.95gb disks. When we tried to use the Maxell discs as data DVD's via Toast 5.13, the writer just kept ejecting the DVDs telling us to insert a recordable disk - Toast WAS set to DVD.

Since then, the supplier has swapped the Maxell discs for what seem to be unbranded DVD's (plain fronts in plain jewel cases). Toast Disc Info shows these as 4.4gb discs and writes to them, but only at 1x. We can't select a 2x speed as this is greyed out.

Any ideas about why we couldn't write to the Maxells but could write the the unbranded, and why we could only write at 1x to the unbranded.

Thanks


Matthew

[Paul S]

I believe the Pioneer drives are only compatible with 4.7Gb media which would explain the Maxell issue. For the 1x, I don't know. Are they DVD-R or DVD-RW? The drive is supposed to be 2x on DVD-R and 1x on DVD-RW.

[tr]

i believe the maxell disks that you were supplied with were 3.95 GB DVD-R Authoring media. the pioneer can only write DVD-R general media.

when i bought my A03, i got two free unbranded DVD-R's. i could only burn those at 1x. i believe that media was not DVD-R version 2.0 compliant. version 1.0 only allowed 1x writing. version 2.0 media allows 2x writing; apple's and other name brand media usually are 2.0 compliant (it usually says on the back of the case somewhere). i'm guessing that the unbranded discs you got were like the ones that i got: cheaper version 1.0 DVD-R's.

pick up a box of apple media, or a name brand media like verbatim or pioneer or something, and i bet you'll be able to burn at 2x.


tr