Mac G-4 Superdrive

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My burner is starting to make noise. It's internal (IDE) I tried a couple of LG burners but I get this message "burning not supported" LG has no drivers for MAC.
Does anyone know what the requirements are for a drive to be MAC compatable ?
 
chance said:
My burner is starting to make noise. It's internal (IDE) I tried a couple of LG burners but I get this message "burning not supported" LG has no drivers for MAC. Does anyone know what the requirements are for a
drive to be MAC compatable ?
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LG (Hitachi)) is a good choice for the same be also DVD-RAM capable and if you have adopted healthy habit of using the same, as still with MO most reliable Data media format, you are very safe.

There shouldn't be any problem with installing a new drive in your Mac, and as described ... strikes me as software problem, where newfound drive is not recognized under old setup.

What are you using for burning?

Toast I hope ;)

Anyway, reinstall the same and make a fresh one for your new drive.

Sadly after G3, Jobs turned his back to DVD-RAM since his behavior switched from visionary to playing safe in corporate waters of mediocrity.

So later G4 superdrives where not DVD-RAM capable.

However joke could be on those who where skeptical , for it seems DVD-RAM is far from dead >

Certainly not after >after this< and more then positive indication of even better F U T U R E

Speed is also no longer matter of any debate : Great News
 
You didn't mention which OS you're using. Tiger has support for most 3rd party drives. With Panther if the drive shows up in ASP you can use Patchburn for iApps/Finder burn support.

Check the drive compatability database over at Accelerate Your Mac to see what works.
 
I am running Panther. I went to LG's website, and they don't have any drivers for MAC. The LG drive is the "super multi" ( R & RW ) I tried it with Peak, Mackie Tracktion 2, and I-Tunes. Also when I went to system profile apple>about this Mac>more info>contents-ATA>ATA bus 3 it says HL-DT-ST DVD ram GSA-4167B. and below that it says under disc burning "not supported"
Thanks for the input so far. Soon I will need this to finish mastering an album
 
Did you try Patchburn yet?

I'm running Panther 10.3.9 on my Sawtooth G4. I've got a retail DVR-109 that showed as burning not supported until I ran Patchburn. Shows as supported now.
 
You guys RAWK!
Patchburn did the trick and works with Protools, Peak, Tracktion, and even I-Tunes. Thanks again.
 
Good to see you got it happening. Glad I could help out.
 
M.Brane said:
Good to see you got it happening. Glad I could help out.
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Using both platforms usually makes user more involved in dealing with remedies for PC side :)

So when such benign episode appears on our Mac one gets over general like I did.

Considering only the last month burdens to shape several (wrongly selected) VIA Mobos (my friend purchased) in order... I'm not surprised.

Thanks for your sober help notes
 
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