DVD Burner woes on my G5

Post by **Doombrain** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:12 pm

Fucking thing. Just when I need to backup 7gig of photos.

I put my files into Toast and click to burn. I can hear the drive spin up, then spin down. After 5 or 6 goes at it Toast reports buffer under run errors. Even on my lite-on external burner I have issue where if I put a DVD disk in it spits it out reporting 'disk not supported'.

I've firewired my files to another G5 and burnt them. I'm just about to reinstall the OS.

Any ideas?

Post by **Canis** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:02 pm

I've had that problem with my drive. I used patchburn to give the thing native support, but it still gives me that error every now and then. I've always solved it with a reboot. I also noticed this problem occurs mostly when I use 3rd party software like Fast DVD Copy 4 as opposed to using the OS for burning.

Post by **Doombrain** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:32 pm

Humm. Just finishing software update now.

It's been fine for months. If this doesn't sort it I’m on the phone to apple.

Post by **Canis** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:13 pm

Is it a built-in drive from Apple or is it one you installed yourself?

Post by **Doombrain** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:38 pm

It's a superdrive

Post by **Canis** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:11 pm

An Apple OEM one? I got a pioneer DVR-109 and it's not supported by apple but it's still a superdrive. It not being supported is where I believe my problems lie.

Post by **Dave** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:16 pm

if you can get the drive working again, try burning at 1x. I have some discs that pull that shit, but the drive never blows up in the process

Post by **Doombrain** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:05 am

It's a Pioneer 106D.

I should get a chance to test the reinstall today. I'll try at x1.

Post by **Doombrain** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:46 am

I got it working but not very well. I've called Apple. they are sending someone out on Monday.

Cheers.