[DM-MUG] iMac G5 Superdrive Upgrade

[Rod Ragner]

On Aug 12, 2005, at 11:02 AM, kcrouch wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Curt.
>
> I've installed PatchBurn 3 (for 10.3) and have mixed results. The  
> 8x DVD that OWC sent seemed to burn fine with iDVD, but the Ridata  
> DVD-R 4x (this is what I was using with the original drive) burn  
> and then skip when played on DVD palyers. They play fine on the Mac  
> though.

The drive may be fine and the burn may have been successful, but the  
disc may be the problem!

I have never had a problem with Maxell, TDK or Memorex media. But,  
recently I purchase a 50 pack of Staples brand 8x DVD-R and none of  
the movies burned on them would work in any of my component DVD  
players! They played fine on my Mac, but not on the players attached  
to televisions.

I duplicated the discs onto 'good' Memorex or TDK media (using Toast  
and an external DVD-RAM drive as the source drive) and the duplicated  
discs worked perfectly in the component players!

I had a similar problem with 4x Fuji DVD-R a few years ago.

Again: Your drive may be fine, it might just be the media -- your  
players may not like the media.

> OWC recommended that my problem might be my media and told me to  
> use Ridata DVD-R 4x. I told them that I had and they got silent.
>
> Next week I'm going to install 10.4 and iLife 05 and see what  
> happens. If all else fails I'll put the original back in and OWC  
> can have their drive back. :(
>
> BTW, the OWC drive is the same drive that Apple is putting in some  
> of the newest iMacs.
>
> Kendall Crouch
>
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
>> From: CW Smith <cwsmith at mchsi.com>
>> Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] iMac G5 Superdrive Upgrade
>> Sent: 12 Aug '05 15:48
>>
>>  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
>>
>>  --
>>
>>  Curt (CW) Smith
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