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External Firewire DVD-R Drive Support in 10.3
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Hi
I just bought an external firewire 5.25 enclosure to put a DVD-R drive in it (Lite-On 411S). The systems detects it fine but drutil info in the terminal tells me that it is unsupported. I tweaked DiscRecordingEngine and created a valid device profile. Apple System Profiler tells me that it is supported but the Finder can't burn to it. Toast works fine.
I wanted to know if there is any way to make it work natively in the finder ? Thanks!
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: I sent hundreds of followers to their deaths. Then I cut and ran. Now I'm livin' large somewhere in Najaf.
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I don't think the Finder likes DVD burners that aren't the SuperDrive type, and even then, it'd need to be internal.
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You heard me! Sod off, Sadr!
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Mar 2001
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Originally posted by Sod Off Sadr:
I don't think the Finder likes DVD burners that aren't the SuperDrive type, and even then, it'd need to be internal.
I don't think that's true. My roommate has a Pioneer drive. He put it into the firewire enclosure that came w/ an external Yamaha CD-RW drive. It works fine for burning in the Finder or wherever.
So my guess is that it's drive brand. SuperDrives are Pioneers (aren't they still?), so I think that OS X supports them pretty well, internal or external.
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Does it work with Disk Utility instead?
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17" MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo | 320G HD | 4 GB RAM | 10.7
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Well for starters you should look at xlr8yourmac.com database for the model of DVDr you have to see how others have faired with it.
I think Pioneers tend to work well with Macs but if there is indeed a working universal hack to iDVD and you have Toast I don't really see what need you would have to use the finder to burn. Toast kicks the hell out of the finder's burn function.
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I have fixed my problem by using "Patchburn II" available on xlr8yourmac.com thanks for the help!
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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Originally posted by Xeo:
I don't think that's true. My roommate has a Pioneer drive. He put it into the firewire enclosure that came w/ an external Yamaha CD-RW drive. It works fine for burning in the Finder or wherever.
So my guess is that it's drive brand. SuperDrives are Pioneers (aren't they still?), so I think that OS X supports them pretty well, internal or external.
Not brand so much as specific model.
I've found that brand new drives, even if a popular brand, aren't always supported. However if it is a popular model then it will be supported by the Finder etc... eventually. (And it will be supportedly immediately with apps like Toast etc.)
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