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Will this Dual layer drive work in my Mac?
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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The DVD-R drive in my QS G4 has for some reason bit the dust, so i am going to go for an Dual Layer upgrade.
I know that the Pioneer DVR-108 Will work with addition of the OS X firmware updater from Accelerate your Mac.
But this LG GSA-4120BA drive is a good £10 cheaper (yes it is a bit slower, but still faster than my old burner), will the LG drive work? Or is it a total unknown? I remember that CD-R drive compatibility was very good with a wide variety of drives supported, is there a similar situation with DVD burners?
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Good question. I'm looking at Multi-Format burner drives, they're getting cheap enough and I perpetually need more storage space. I won't buy it to stick in a PC, but it'll be nice to replace my DVD-ROM in my G4 that doesn't read DVD-R and my old cd burner. If there's a list anywhere, I'd be thankful to have access to it, or I'll wait for blu-ray.
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i think the latest toast update introduced dual layer capabilities
yep just found the update list for toast 6
http://roxio.com/en/support/toast/ve...history6.jhtml
"New and Improved In Version 6.0.7:
Double-Layer (DL) support for data, audio, video and copy formats.
Data - Create 8 GB data DVDs
Audio - Create DVD Music Albums with over 72 hours of music (requires Toast with Jam 6)
Video - Create DVDs with over 3 hours of video (4 hours when using Dolby Digital sound - requires Toast with Jam 6). Create DVDs from pre-existing VIDEO_TS folders without re-compressing to fit on single layer DVD.
Copy - Copy unencrypted DVDs and disc images without re-compressing to fit on single layer DVD.
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Yes, Toast normally works with the popular Drives.
But the original poster might want to use the iApps instead (and for that he needs to update the system with a patch)
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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its only a little more expensive plus it will work while the lg most likely won't even work with itunes.
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in the end I ended up with the Pioneer, they didn't have any of the LG in stock.
Works out of the box (no firmware/OS patches required) Not had any dual layer disks to try it on yet though.
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