[chip-douglas]

***EDIT: the update is fine, I was wrong. My computer just made a bunch of copies of an old movie for some reason. Update works fine. It's weird cause I hadn't even been using the file that got copied 5 times. It took up the rest of my hdd, so there wasn't enough room to burn the DVD. Sorry for the false alarm.
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****EDIT 2 Blar, dunno what's up with this thing. Back to the memory error again with 17GB free space on the hard drive. OS9 and OSX both give error ram type -108. Tried doing same thing as last night to make it work. I'm leaving for San Fran in bit, maybe I'll run into Steve Jobs so I can vent on him.
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I have been using DVD-Rs in Toast 5.1 and iDVD for a while now. I'm running 10.5.1 with the new superdrive update.

Last night, I bought some DVD-RWs to test out. Using Toast, I made a DVD copy for a friend of a movie we made last week off-roading.

Then I decided to try out the DVD-RWs I just got so I wouldn't have to keep buying DVD-Rs everytime we wanted to make a change. Well, after I put the RW in it said waiting for writer. Then it said cannot something something out of memory error.
Error Type -108. Under the Recorder menu I checked the Disc Info, it showed everything was fine and recognized the DVD-RW.

So I thought that was weird. I restarted to see if that would help, same error. So I restarted again and tried a regular DVD-R, got the same error. Next I tried using a regular DVD-R in iDVD, got the same error once again. Um.......what just happened here.

I never tried the DVD-RWs before the firmware update, so I can't say whether or not that has anything to do with it, but I don't think it does. Anybody else ran into this or heard of this happening?
Please help save my iMac.

[chip-douglas]

Well, it doesn't look good. Looks like trying to use a DVD-RW on updated iMac superdrive has caused at least 1 other person to lose the use of DVD-R. I found this over at ripdifferent http://www.macdvd.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000177.html

He's getting a different error than me though. Also, the drive still kind of works. I can still burn cd-r and cd-rw and read all kinds of discs (cdr, cdrw, dvd-r, dvd-rw), just can't burn any kind of dvd.

Is there any way to go back to an older firmware for the superdrive?

[lucylawless]

I assume you called Apple support already?

[chip-douglas]

As soon as I get back to Arizona I am going to my local reseller where I bought it. I'm in SF till Monday night. I'll post what I figure out next week.

[CIA]

Mow I'm kinda freaked out. I have a Rev A. Superdrive. It's a DVD-R 103. Apple system profiler lists it as a DVD-RW. I have some Maxell DVD-RW discs that I bought at staples. Is it safe to use these? (The discs are labeled Ver 1.1, don't know what that means) What is the best method of using DVD-RW discs? I have toast 5.2, and I'm running OS 10.2.1.