[Lyra]

Yeah well that is what happened, when I tried out my Toast 5.x and then saw my "Buffer underrun Prevention was inactive"...

Then I thought to my self must be an error. So I installed my new Toast 6, and to my surprise it was missing that or rather it was inactive too...

I bought a new G5, I need to know, those who has this 1.8 Ghz G5, have you noticed this as well, there seems to be no buffer underrun prevention on the new Superdrive!!!!!!!!!

Any ideas, news or work around would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks...

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Perhaps the software just doesn't understand it because it is new?

Are you saying you get errors or that the option in the prefs is grayed out?

[asmack]

Someone posted a similar question over at Roxio's Toast 6 Titanium message board:

I received this comment today from Roxio support:

"Unfortunately, the recorder Pioneer 106D itself does not support Buffer UnderRun Feature on DVD media but does support for CD-R media and hence the option is not available in Toast. Toast 6.x does not directly control the feature as it uses dynamic detection of recorders. Also what kind of files are you trying to burn?"

Toast 5.2.2Lite does have buffer underrun for the Pioneer 106D and I am burning DVD's smoothly at 4x.

Will Roxio fix the bug or does Pioneer need a patch?

And this was someone's response to the above post:

It's a bug. It was fixed in 5.2.2 for Lacie. It hasn't been fixed in 6.0 yet. I'm sure it will be soon. Why not just burn a DVD+R?

I just bought a brand new LaCie d2 DVD+/-RW (Pioneer 106), and Toast 6 Titanium, and I, too, can't get the buffer underrun to work.

Does this mean the PowerMac G5s are also using Pioneer 106 drives? What kind is in your G5?

[Lyra]

Originally posted by asmack:
Someone posted a similar question over at Roxio's Toast 6 Titanium message board:



And this was someone's response to the above post:



I just bought a brand new LaCie d2 DVD+/-RW (Pioneer 106), and Toast 6 Titanium, and I, too, can't get the buffer underrun to work.

Does this mean the PowerMac G5s are also using Pioneer 106 drives? What kind is in your G5?

Hi as a matter of fact, I think it is the very same driver in my G5, the one you have I mean.

But a funny, thing happened, I looked at the toast driver info and in special features of the superdrive it says nothing. Then I tried to install Toast 6 over 5.2.1 and still nothing. Then went back to Toast 5.2.1 and guess what, in special features of the superdrive it says "Buffer Underrun Prevention". ????

Also the reason why I am writing this is cause when I made a DVD-R two days ago, no problems. Apples own discs and all, then the day after it gave me a buffer underrun error, messed up my disc and was trhown out... I don't get it...

I mean, we have a state of the art machine and this thing happens?

You think Roxio just never had the time to test it on these new drivers for the G5?

[TC]

Look out for news on a fix for this over at xlr8yourmac:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/

The best bet for now is to stick to burning at 1x.

Somebody mentioned just using dvd +R, does +R not suffer from buffer under-run? I have been trying to track down the differences between the standards and was wondering if this was one of the benefits of +R?

[Landos Mustache]

I have a pioneer drive in my dual and it does work for CD-r's.

[Lyra]

Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
I have a pioneer drive in my dual and it does work for CD-r's.

Hi, my problem isn't CD-r's but rather the DVDs...

So I hope they make some serious changes soon as I don't understand why it does not support buffer underrun protection in Toast when in the software its self it says that as a feature in my pioneer DVD (Superdrive), the buffer underrun protection is a built in feature. Yet Toast does not see that and messes up my DVDs in the process...