[DM-MUG] iMac G5 Superdrive Upgrade

[CW Smith]

On 8/12/05 7:03 AM, "kcrouch" <kcrouch at klccomputing.com> wrote:

> I'm attempting to use OWC's Superdrive upgrade that I've been reading about,
> but cannot always get DVDs burned through iDVD to play on DVD players. Has
> anyone had experience with the upgrades for the iMac? I currently am running
> 10.3.9 and iDVD 4.0.1. I don't want to have to put the original drive back
> into the machine, but if I cannot get the new drive to work, it'll have to go
> back. Any ideas out there?
> 
> Kendall
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Apple's iPrograms, like iTunes, iDVD, and others require a stock Apple Combo
Drive or SuperDrive, and don't support aftermarket drives (unless you
replace with a model identical to Apple's stock drives).  There is a way
around this, however:

PatchBurn is a firmware patch that fools your Mac into believing that your
aftermarket drive is in fact a stock Apple drive.  You can find it at:

http://www.patchburn.de/download.html

Hope this helps!


Peace,
CW

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