"Marta Edie" <mledie at insightbb.com> wrote:
>  ... I burned a CD on my new iMac. It told me it could not locate my preferred
disk burner, but would I want to use  the DWD RW-DVR-105 ATA ? Of course I said
yes  - what alternative was there?-and it burned OK. But my Power book never
asked me that and I would just like to know the difference here.

Could the difference be your new wireless network? Mabye new iMac either
senses remembers the Matsushita CDRW in the old PowerBook as a previous
preference, and needs to ask to use its Pioneer DVDRW.


Ward Oldham <woldham at insightbb.com> wrote:
> ... sounds like you used Toast.  It leads me to believe that the preferences
> were set for the wrong drive as if you had moved your copy of Toast from the
> Powerbook and it preserved the Powerbook preferences.

I use Toast in OSX on new 1.25 DP with a Yamaha Firewire external CDRW and
an internal Toshiba CDRW.
Under Preferences, there is a pull down menu that shows both drives and lets
me select one for reading audio CDs. There is nothing under Preferences
about burning CDs.
However, in the Menu Bar, under Recorder-->Recorder Info.. , there is a pull
down menu that shows both CDRW drives and lets me select one for burning
CDs. 
When the external drive is not turned on, it does not show up in either pull
down menu. So if you have two drives, and one is not turned on, it is not a
choice. In Toast, at least, there is no preference to select a drive that is
not turned on.




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