[wuzup101]

I purchased an external enclosure for my sony DVD+/-RW recently so that I could ditch my PC desktop all together and just take my powerbook (which has a combo drive) to school. Anyway, I got the enclosure tonight and installed my drive and proceeded to watch a movie whith it hooked up via my firewire 400 port (enclosure is usb2.0/firewire 400). Anyway, I had some stuff I wanted to burn to a DVD so I went into toast titanium as usual and dragged the stuff over as usual again... and everything seemed fine. Toast started the lead in and I thuoght all was well. Then when it started burning the files it came up with an error saying something to the effect of "the connection is not stable." I ejected the disk and it indeed did make it into a coaster (the leadin was very visible). Anyway, I resteated the firewire cables and figured I was good to go. I tried it again and the same thing happened. I then went into system profiler and looked at my firewire drive and it regonized the drive as a DVD-RW and had the correct model number an all... but it said burning was not supported? WTF, I thought OSX was supposed to pick this thing up and support it right off the bat?

I then tried to do the same thing with it connected via usb2.0 and the system profiler again said burning is not supported.

Okay so I want to know what gives. Did I just waste my hard earned money on something that's not going to work with my new Powerbook. I hope this is just an oversight and I need to install a small file or something. I've had the drive since xmas and it's definitely hooked up right and is a perfectly working drive which has burnt countless DVDs. So what am I doing wrong here?

[wuzup101]

Okay well after doing some google searching on the subject I found a site with some hacked drivers via PatchBurn2 (beta 1). I can atleast burn in firewire mode now apparently. I made quite a few coasters at first, but now I think I got it working correctly... so no need to reply for now

[Leo the 3rd]

Yeah, a helpful site for using external burners is www.xlr8yourmac.com. I highly recommend the Pioneer DVD burners in enclosures because they tend to have support out the box for Apple iApps (except iDVD, but there's a workaround for that). Glad Patchburn solved your problem.