Re: Superdrive and DVD-RW?

[Luis Sequeira]

 >DVD-RW works fine for recording data but iDVD used to reject them. I read
some hints on how to get iDVD to accept them but never tried it (look at
http://www.macosxhints.com/ ) and I seem to recall someone claiming the
problem no longer exists but I wouldn't swear to that.
Hmmm, I bought some CompUSA branded DVD-RWs and after trying 4 disks
I came to the conclusion that my TiBk 1GHz SuperDrive didn't support
writing to them (although the specs says it should). So my question
is, was that just a case of low-quality, (virtually) generic media?
Or something else? Covert settings? Faulty SD? Sunspots?
-Al Terego
The original TiBook 1GHz superdrive is NOT supposed to work with 
DVD-RW (only DVD-R).
I have one.

There is an unsupported, do-it-at-your-own-risk firmware upgrade 
which, in principle, allows you to do two things: double the burning 
speed for supported media (DVD-R at 2x, CD-R at 16x, CD-RW at 8x) and 
also burn to DVD-RW (at 1x). I did that and can do the first of those 
happily.
Burning to DVD-RW is still not working great. Some burn, but give 
problems later, some give burning errors. I have been told that 
writing something to a DVD-RW on a different drive and then erasing 
it makes it work ok, but I have no other machine (mac or pc) that can 
write to DVD-RW, so I have no way of testing this claim.

Luis Sequeira
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Re: Superdrive and DVD-RW?

[Larry le Mac]

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So my question is, was that just a case of low-quality,
(virtually) generic media? Or something else? Covert settings? Faulty SD? 
Sunspots?
I don't have the answer, but I would like to expand the topic
a little as I have an MDD with SuperDrive and am hoping to buy
a PB with SD.
Are they all DVD-RW or just DVD-R ???
I have used fairly generic/low brand DVD-R with my MDD SD
with no problems.
Larry
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Re: Superdrive and DVD-RW?

[AlTerego]

DVD-RW works fine for recording data but iDVD used to reject them. I read
some hints on how to get iDVD to accept them but never tried it (look at
http://www.macosxhints.com/ ) and I seem to recall someone claiming the
problem no longer exists but I wouldn't swear to that.
Hmmm, I bought some CompUSA branded DVD-RWs and after trying 4 disks 
I came to the conclusion that my TiBk 1GHz SuperDrive didn't support 
writing to them (although the specs says it should). So my question 
is, was that just a case of low-quality, (virtually) generic media? 
Or something else? Covert settings? Faulty SD? Sunspots?

-Al Terego
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Re: Superdrive and DVD-RW?

[Clark Martin]

At 1:08 AM -0500 1/9/05, Timothy Luoma wrote:
Do I take it as intentional that all the literature tells me that my 
Powerbook G4/1.5 can make DVD-Rs but doesn't mention DVD-RWs?

Has anyone had any luck w/ them working?
With my iBook it says that the included apps will write CD-R, CD-RW 
and DVD-R.  It says to use DVD-RW it requires third party software 
such as Toast or Retrospect.  I can confirm this as I have used 
Retrospect to back up to DVD-RW disks.
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Re: Superdrive and DVD-RW?

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On 1/9/05 1:08 AM, "Timothy Luoma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Do I take it as intentional that all the literature tells me that my
> Powerbook G4/1.5 can make DVD-Rs but doesn't mention DVD-RWs?
> 
> Has anyone had any luck w/ them working?
> 
DVD-RW works fine for recording data but iDVD used to reject them. I read
some hints on how to get iDVD to accept them but never tried it (look at
http://www.macosxhints.com/ ) and I seem to recall someone claiming the
problem no longer exists but I wouldn't swear to that.

david




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Superdrive and DVD-RW?

[Timothy Luoma]

Do I take it as intentional that all the literature tells me that my 
Powerbook G4/1.5 can make DVD-Rs but doesn't mention DVD-RWs?

Has anyone had any luck w/ them working?
tia,
TjL
10.3.7
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