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DVD-RAM in Quicksilver G4 867?
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I have a Quicksilver G4 867mhz with the DVD-R superdrive built-in. My question is can I use DVD-Ram in this drive? or is it DVD-RW? I have tried inserting a DVD-Ram 4.7GB disk in it but it just doenst show up as a CD (os x doenst see it or even mount it) I would just like to use the large DVD capacity to do backups rather than have multiple CD's 
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Regards
Starfrog
G4 Quicksilver 867 Mhz 1.5 Gig Ram 80GB HD Geforce3 17'Apple LCD Soundsticks + iSub External Lacie 16x10x40 CDRW Epson C80 Printer Canon Scanner 650U and Powermac 5400 all-in-on :) LC 575 all-in-one and a Bag of Jellybeans
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The superdrive (like mine) uses DVD-R disks, which you can get at sears for $13 or on yahoo shopping for a little bit more than $6.
They hold 4.7gb, and can only be writtne once, unfortunately 
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I have quit MacNN effective at 5:00:00 PM, January 25, 2001.
Goodbye. (nobody banned me)
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Only a DVD-RAM drive can read DVD-RAM disks.
The superdrive is actually a DVD-RW although it isn't supported as such. Ask someone else I'm not really 100% familiar with the ones in the QS.
Personally I prefer DVD-RAM but the down side is that aspect of requiring another DVD-RAM drive to read the media. The media also tends to be a little more costly too.
[ 12-16-2001: Message edited by: Telomar ]
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Long live DVD+RW! 
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Columbus, Ohio
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Only a DVD-RAM drive can read DVD-RAM disks.
actually, when i had my original DVD-ROM in my G4 450 Sawtooth, i could read DVD-RAM type II (removeable disks). previously, i backed up my mp3's on a DVD-RAM drive that i once had, and then i put my ROM drive back in to see if i could read the DVD-RAM, and it worked. unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at things) now i have put a Pioneer DVR-A03 in my G4, and it can't read DVD-RAM type II (removeable) disks...it even says so in some tech specs i found somewhere on the web. no biggie...i'll just have to do another backup to DVD-R, and with a disk being $5, it's a lot more economical than DVD-RAM.
But i really liked the fuctionality of DVD-RAM, it was just like a removeable hard drive, which brings me to this: do you think any DVD+RW will be mac compatible? or do you think apple will support +RW? it's almost like deja-vu, when apple put DVD-RAM drives in the G4's, and then DVD-R came around, and now apple doesn't even mention DVD-RAM...
sorry, got a little off topic...
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Join Date: Jul 2000
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DVD+RW might not be officially supported by Apple (yet?), but Toast Titanium will burn them with no problem.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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what i'd really be interested in is whether anyone has successfully installed an IDE DVD+RW drive in a G4 and have it work with iDVD or DVD Studio Pro.
anyone, anyone...?
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