Re: Blank disks not recognized

2005-03-28 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Mar 28, 2005, at 12:42 AM, Amber wrote:
It is possible you have a hardware problem but it is quite possible we 
are both unaware of some other sort of solution.
Total guess, have you tried http://www.patchburn.de/ ?

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Re: Blank disks not recognized

2005-03-28 Thread Patrick Lum

This is a new problem for me -- I've never seen it before. Whenever I 
insert
a blank disk in my PowerBook (Pismo) or in my external QueFire burner, 
it is
not recognized.
Have you checked your system preferences? In CDs and DVDs you can set 
the action your Mac takes when you insert a blank disc. Perhaps the 
problem machine is set to ignore it.

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Blank disks not recognized

2005-03-28 Thread Cheryl Goody
It is possible you have a hardware problem but it is quite possible we
are both unaware of some other sort of solution.

Amber

Misery loves company, I guess. Don¹t see how it could be a hardware problem
in my case since both my internal and external drives are behaving the same
way!

Total guess, have you tried http://www.patchburn.de/ ?

According to their website,

Q: Does PatchBurn support CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives?
A: No, PatchBurn only supports CDRW and DVD writers. CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives
won't need PatchBurn. Since they are read only devices, they should be
supported by Mac-OS X right out of the box.

So no soap there either.

Cheryl


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Re: Blank disks not recognized

2005-03-28 Thread John McGibney
So if you don't have a CD or DVD burner then how do you expect to burn blank
CDs? And why worry that the system can't find the blanks? Or am I missing
something??

If you have an older CD burner try PatchBurn anyway.

John 

 It is possible you have a hardware problem but it is quite possible we
 are both unaware of some other sort of solution.
 
 Amber
 
 Misery loves company, I guess. Don¹t see how it could be a hardware problem
 in my case since both my internal and external drives are behaving the same
 way!
 
 Total guess, have you tried http://www.patchburn.de/ ?
 
 According to their website,
 
 Q: Does PatchBurn support CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives?
 A: No, PatchBurn only supports CDRW and DVD writers. CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives
 won't need PatchBurn. Since they are read only devices, they should be
 supported by Mac-OS X right out of the box.
 
 So no soap there either.
 
 Cheryl
 
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Re: Blank disks not recognized

2005-03-28 Thread John McGibney
Recent software update? Maybe the latest update broke something?
Can you link the problem to the time you installed an update?
Could the drive eye have gotten dirty? Try using a CD cleaner in the
drive. Try a different cable.

John 

 Ok, so I tried PatchBurn, even thought the QPS (my external Firewire drive
 brand) website says the drive should be supported by OS X. PatchBurn did not
 find any writers. See applicable quote from their website below:
 
 PatchBurn 3 does not find any writer, although it is connected and switched
 on. It asks me to save and send the logfile.
 A: This issue mostly appears with older CD writers connected via USB (like
 Freecom, HP, Mitsumi, QPS or Sony) or SCSI. In Mac-OS X you will need a
 special
 low level driver for the USB or SCSI interface. Contact the support of the
 drives vendor to get this driver. After installing it, your writer should
 appear
 in PatchBurn.
 
 Both drives used to work fine -- this is a new issue. Both drives show up in
 the System Profiler. I can't burn anything if the machine won't recognize
 blanks!
 
 Cheryl

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VolumeWorks

2005-03-28 Thread Chad Swarthout
Has anyone used the program VolumeWorks or iPartition to resize
existing HFS+ partitions?

I recently upgraded my Powerbook Pismo with an 80gb drive, copied the
partition from the old drive using dd on my unix box, and to my
surprise, could not resize the partition with the Disk Utility on the
OS X install disk.

Any advice?  Could I borrow one of these applications to try it out?

Thanks,

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PDF bar in Word 2004 ???

2005-03-28 Thread Larry le Mac
Some time ago I asked about removing the stoopid little PDF bar
in Word 2004. I got a very good answer, however, I seem to have
mislaid the mail (normally save them in topic folders).
I know I'm supposed to go in to Library or something and remove
a file or so, but which/where ?!...   :o/
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Re: Blank disks not recognized

2005-03-28 Thread victoria duggan
Hi Cheryl
You say that the specs of your mac are internal cd/dvd and external q 
drive cdrw.

OK someone tell me if i am wrong but why put a blank cd/dvd in the 
internal drive anyway. because there is nothing that you can do with it 
in there, because it is just a dvd not a burner and it would not see 
the disc correctly anyway. As for the external burner if the burn 
circle is grayed out then the OS is not seeing the writer. Have you 
tried reinstalling the software that come with it , because when they 
say it is supported by OSX and there should be no need, what they 
really mean is if the burner is seen and works before you install the 
software then you are lucky and keep it that way.

i use toast for burning even though the systems i have have apple 
internal cdrw/dvd.

Vicki
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Lone Mac in a Windoze world...

2005-03-28 Thread Larry le Mac
I'm the only one with a Mac here at work, and while I have
no problems accessing stuff, printing and so forth, I have
a couple of concerns that someone may have suggestions
of how to solve...
When I access the server I spray .DS Store files all over
the place, and while most PC users have Don't show invisibles,
these guys do as we're all technical and not office bods.
1. Is there any way of navigating/accessing a PC without
   spraying .DS Store files in every folder one accesses ???
One solution would be to run Virtual PC and access the server
through Windoze as that presumably doesn't do this.
2. Forget features, which version of Virtual PC is the fastest
   on a PowerBook G4 1GHz and OS X.3 ? I would probably
   run Win 2000.

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