on 14/2/03 12:12, David M. Ensteness at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Uhm actually more 3rd party burners have been supported in each version > of Mac OS X. If you really don't believe it I can look up the feature > pages on the various updates and show you ... or I spose you could go > look yourself. For example though 10.2.4 notes that it adds support for > the 48x LaCie drives.
OS X 10.2 killed support for my drive (& I have had that verified from another owner of the same drive): Sony 24/10/40 internal. I also lost support for my USB burner along the way (don't remember which version of OS X 10.x.x killed that! Fortunately I never used the internal burning software except to gauge OS X's support for third party burners :) Since it doesn't do multi-session back-ups or gives you any control over the CDs you create it was next to useless for real back-up (other than if you wanted to dump a whole lot of stuff to disk at once and that was pretty rare). Of course... this is also the company that used AFTER-SALE FirmWare updates to maliciously disable G4 updates in B&Ws, merely to prevent the B&W from competing with the first generation G4 (which didn't add anything substantial to the design of the computer). Fortunately, the upgrade cos have managed to disable the disabler but still, it's pretty repugnant that they sabotaged the hardware, after ownership had been transferred away from their control. IIRC there was also a pretty obvious case of such malicious FirmWare sabotage in one of the laptops (if they didn't want to include the feature in those particular computers, they shouldn't have sold the computers with such a feature, *even* if it wasn't advertised as such). Eric. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
