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tikki · May 22, 2003, 11:27 AM

Has anyone gotten a CRW4416SX to burn using Toast in MacOS X 10.2? It's an external SCSI drive, but I can't get it to be recognized as anything more than a plain old CD-Rom. I would have hoped OS X would have gained support for the drive by now.

Any help is appreciated.

mudzilla · May 22, 2003, 12:45 PM

i've got the same burner, and have had very random success getting it to work.

last time i installed the El Gato software (even though they say it's not needed in 10.2 etc) it was recognised, and i have burned discs with it.
the url is here...

http://www.elgato.com/freeStuff/index.html

gonna try it again with mine (just reformatted the mac) and report back

mud

tikki · May 22, 2003, 12:49 PM

I sure hope that fixes it, zilla. We have spent an assload upgrading software already for OS X. hardware is gonna piss off the big wigs

tikki · May 22, 2003, 01:48 PM

I popped on the El gato thingy, and it recognized the drive, so I burnt a disc. Only problem is that when the disc was finished burning, it wasn't recognized by MacOS X.

mudzilla · May 22, 2003, 07:48 PM

well, i tried the drive with and without the el gato software. no joy so far.

i've not played with termination/parity and block jumpers yet. as soon as i have something, i'll let you know.

tikki · May 23, 2003, 11:38 AM

I burnt three CDs from the SCSI drive (its an external btw), and when I try to open them on the same system, I get nothing.

I brought them to my iMac, and two fo the three showed up with MOST of the data (one of the CDs was missing one directory).

I dunno. Progress I guess.