For starters, what kinda G4 do you have? I think the 24x cd-rws came out on the last revision of the Quicksilver (starting with the 733/867/800's) but I could be wrong there. I have the newest 800 and mine has a 24x..
I don�t think the disc rating really matters that much. Like you, I got two of the Verbatim 16x with my G4 and they burned just fine at 24x. CD-RW's however do matter.. If you have a 10x RW drive, and only put in a disc rated at 4x, then it will only let you burn at 4x.. I had to go buy all new RW's just to finally use them at 10x.. Now RW's are actually useful to me since it doesn�t take 20 minutes to burn em now hehe.. As for Disc Burner, if youre just archiving it should do just fine for you. I don�t remember exactly the steps to use it but Im sure someone else here can walk you through that. The burners in Macs are as far as I know Sony and have been. In the Apple System Profiler it should tell you what kind of drive you have. Mine is a Sony CRX-170E. I read somewhere that the Apple drives don�t have the burn proof that real Sonys do but um.. Toast tells me differently.. > Nothing really there. The ones I got with the machine are Verbatim 1X-16X. > The Sony ones I got are 1X-24X. All the manual says is disc diameters > supported=12cm and has CD-Rom on the list of supported data formats. > > Nothing though about whether it's a 16x or 24x drive though. the sales > guy thought the disks would be happy as long as the drive was within > 1x and 24x. > > How does the Mac OS internal burner software do? All I need it for > is to archive, but I need the data to be good. How reliable are the Mac > CD burners? -- Chris http://www.descentrecords.com http://www.towelhead.net http://www.mp3.com/towelhead http://www.mp3.com/stemcellvirus -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> 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-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
