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crystalthunder · Jun 18, 2002, 09:52 AM

I have a question. At work my PC (I know, I know) was just upgraded to a DVD-Burner, and now I have a spare CD-Burner sitting next to my shiny PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics. I was wondering if this Sony CD-RW CRX100E is compatible w/ my PowerMac running Mac OS X 10.1.5

I REALLY REALLY want a burner in my machine and this might be a good chance to get one. Thanks!

maco · Jun 18, 2002, 12:39 PM

Do you wanna replace your cd rom with the burner?

I am wanting to do this as well. I have a OLD Que fire burner that doesn't work in OS X and never worked with iTunes or Discburner in OS 9.

Does anyone know if you can take any supported drive, remove your cd rom and slap in the burner?

You can buy external Firewire cases to put the burner into if its a iTunes-Discburner compatible burner. Just do a search in the Peripherals section.

maco · Jun 18, 2002, 12:40 PM

Double post

[ 06-18-2002, 12:40 PM: Message edited by: maco ]

crystalthunder · Jun 19, 2002, 08:41 AM

Uhm... I installed it and it worked ^_^

iTunes support, Apple Disc Burning, etc.

I am very happy now! ^_^

maco · Jun 19, 2002, 03:56 PM

Glad to hear.....
I've never been able to get a straight answer from anyone if this works or not.

tr · Jun 19, 2002, 08:11 PM

i would think this would work...wasn't this sony drive (or another sony model) the OEM drive for some quicksilvers?

tr

MSME · Jun 19, 2002, 10:59 PM

You may want to make sure that you can boot from your newly intalled cdrw drive. I've heard of people installing cdrw's in place of the oem ones and finding that they can't boot from a cd even if the drive works fine otherwise.

[ 06-19-2002, 11:02 PM: Message edited by: MSME ]

crystalthunder · Jun 20, 2002, 08:27 AM

Don't worry, I booted from my OS 9 disc yesterday just fine. I'm very happy w/ my burner

MM-o4 · Jun 20, 2002, 07:24 PM

Thats to 'smartness' of a mac. It just works!

MM-o4

crystalthunder · Jun 21, 2002, 08:45 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by MM-o4:
Thats to 'smartness' of a mac. It just works!

MM-o4<hr /></blockquote>Exactly!

pjkim · Jun 21, 2002, 07:40 PM

You can also check the directory
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiscRecording.framework/Versions/A/Resources/DevicePlugIns

and find a file corresponding to the drive manufacturer. In your case it would have been a file called

SonyCDR.device-plugin

Doing a hexdump -C SonyCDR.device-plugin would have revealed an entry for you r particular model. The trailing letters do not seem to matter for device matching.

<blockquote>code:<hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">000027d0 00 43 44 2d 52 57 20 20 43 52 58 38 30 30 45 00 |.CD-RW CRX800E.|
000027e0 00 00 00 00 00 43 44 2d 52 57 20 20 43 52 58 31 |.....CD-RW CRX1|
000027f0 30 55 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 44 2d 52 57 20 20 |0U.......CD-RW |
00002800 43 52 58 37 35 4c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 44 2d |CRX75L.......CD-|
00002810 52 57 20 20 43 52 58 38 35 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 |RW CRX85A......|
00002820 00 43 44 2d 52 57 20 20 43 52 58 31 30 30 00 00 |.CD-RW CRX100..| <---- here
00002830 00 00 00 00 00 43 44 2d 52 57 20 20 43 52 58 31 |.....CD-RW CRX1|
00002840 32 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 44 2d 52 57 20 20 |20.......CD-RW |
00002850 43 52 58 31 34 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 44 2d |CRX140.......CD-|</pre><hr /></blockquote>So yes, you could have known before you put it in that it would likely have worked. I hope that this answer is straight forward enough.

pjk

pjkim · Jun 21, 2002, 07:41 PM

You can also check the directory
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiscRecording.framework/Versions/A/Resources/DevicePlugIns

and find a file corresponding to the drive manufacturer. In your case it would have been a file called

SonyCDR.device-plugin

Doing a hexdump -C SonyCDR.device-plugin would have revealed an entry for you r particular model. The trailing letters do not seem to matter for device matching.

<blockquote>code:<hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">000027d0 00 43 44 2d 52 57 20 20 43 52 58 38 30 30 45 00 |.CD-RW CRX800E.|
000027e0 00 00 00 00 00 43 44 2d 52 57 20 20 43 52 58 31 |.....CD-RW CRX1|
000027f0 30 55 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 44 2d 52 57 20 20 |0U.......CD-RW |
00002800 43 52 58 37 35 4c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 44 2d |CRX75L.......CD-|
00002810 52 57 20 20 43 52 58 38 35 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 |RW CRX85A......|
00002820 00 43 44 2d 52 57 20 20 43 52 58 31 30 30 00 00 |.CD-RW CRX100..| <---- here
00002830 00 00 00 00 00 43 44 2d 52 57 20 20 43 52 58 31 |.....CD-RW CRX1|
00002840 32 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 44 2d 52 57 20 20 |20.......CD-RW |
00002850 43 52 58 31 34 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 44 2d |CRX140.......CD-|</pre><hr /></blockquote>So yes, you could have known before you put it in that it would likely have worked. I hope that this answer is straight forward enough.

pjk

Mac Zealot · Jun 21, 2002, 08:01 PM

Pretty much any drive will work in there, it's been discussed before, however some will not boot due to the fact that the drive won't spin up fast enough.

Hope that helps <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

It just has to be a ATAPI/IDE/ATA/UDMA supported drive