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Moving the Apple Superdrive to a Firewire Enclosure
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Does anyone know if it is possible to pull the Superdrive out of my Quicksilver and place it in a Firewire Enclosure and have it still work (especially with iDVD)? I have both a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver and a Powerbook G4 and would love to be able to use the DVD Burner on my Powerbook.
Any thoughts?
Some Clarification, I'm using OSX and iDVD2.
[ 11-15-2001: Message edited by: Jason King ]
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Ought to be possible, as formac and others are selling the superdrive in a firewire enclosure- make sure your enclosure works with CD drives, the ones that connect with hard drives are different in their firmware in the enclosure.
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<dvdram man>
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hold on a second... iDVD does NOT recognize external firewire devices.
several people have tried this on their TiBooks and have failed.
check the apple support discussions on iDVD.
having said that, there is no technical reason why putting the superdrive in a firewire enclosure will not work, aside from perhaps drivers not supporting the superdrive fully. i recently bought the DVR-A03 superdrive and replaced my dvd-ram with it. i put my dvd-ram into a Que Fire! CDRW enclosure... macosX 10.1.1 can mount my old dvd-rams but i can not write to them. i dont know if this is because the enclosure reports that the disk is read-only, if its a bug in the macosX drivers for firwire disks...
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Originally posted by <dvdram man>:
<STRONG>hold on a second... iDVD does NOT recognize external firewire devices.
several people have tried this on their TiBooks and have failed.
check the apple support discussions on iDVD.
having said that, there is no technical reason why putting the superdrive in a firewire enclosure will not work, aside from perhaps drivers not supporting the superdrive fully. i recently bought the DVR-A03 superdrive and replaced my dvd-ram with it. i put my dvd-ram into a Que Fire! CDRW enclosure... macosX 10.1.1 can mount my old dvd-rams but i can not write to them. i dont know if this is because the enclosure reports that the disk is read-only, if its a bug in the macosX drivers for firwire disks...</STRONG>
If this is the case, and you know better than I, what does formac, who ship a firewire dvd-r (pioneer a03 in an enclosure) use for software support?
Victor Marks
lvmarks@mac.com
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